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The Dugout: Kansas City Royals Spring Training 2011

The Kansas City Royals no longer have Kyle Farnsworth or Sidney Ponson on their roster, so it takes a while for me to come up with jokes about them. Where do I make them curse? Where do I imply that they are forest creatures? Thankfully, Joakim Soria is trying to get rid of his 'Mexecutioner' because of its negative...

The Dugout: Kyle Farnsworth Circa 2005

Like today's Dugout was going to be about something else. The Giants looked like they had game 2 in the bag. They were up 4-1 and that crazy guy with the beard from the Beach Boys was pitching. Bobby Cox had been ejected for coughing too loudly within 100 feet of an umpire. Things were going great. Somehow the planets...

The Dugout: Trey Hillman Is Like a Sporcle

The Kansas City Royals have fired manager Trey Hillman, the team announced late Thursday afternoon. He will be replaced by some roving combination of Eric Wedge, Davey Johnson, and Dusty Baker whenever he's available again. The best thing about being a Major League manager is that once you're a manager, you get to be a...

The Dugout Is Not Making This Up: Kyle Farnsworth Injured by Dogs

In a ridiculous but true story we couldn't possibly make up, Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Kyle Farnsworth continued his 2009 Farewell to the Major Leagues Tour today by having to get four stitches in his left index finger after being bitten by one of his dogs. According to the report, he was bitten while trying to...

The Dugout: Opening Day

There is no greater time than the beginning of baseball season, especially when you write for a sports blog and you happen to be so beloved by the Christian God that he manipulates the happenstance of professional sports to make your feature better. That's exactly what happened today, when the Kansas City Royals opened up...

Background on pecota

PECOTA, an acronym for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is a sabermetric system for forecasting Major League Baseball player performance.

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