Topic: MLB Draft
Royals Awarded Top Honor in 2012 Competitive Balance Lottery
What is the Competitive Balance Lottery? Jonathan Mayo, MLB.com …is a mechanism designed to help teams perceived to need the most assistance by awarding extra Draft picks to some of them. The 10 smallest-market teams and 10 lowest-revenue teams will have the chance to win one of six extra selections in the 2013 First-Year Player Keep Reading
Royals give Kyle Zimmer $3 million Signing Bonus
Thursday night, the Kansas City Royals announced they signed the 2012 #5 overall draft pick, RHP Kyle Zimmer from the University of San Francisco, giving Zimmer a $3 million signing bonus. It took only three days for the Royals and Zimmer to come to an agreement – a benefit of the new “slotting” structure and Keep Reading
Royals Select RHP Kyle Zimmer #5 Overall in MLB Draft
Royals.com Press Release: The Kansas City Royals have selected Kyle Zimmer, a right-handed pitcher from the University of San Francisco, with the fifth overall pick of the June Free Agent Draft. The 20-year-old Zimmer, a 6-foot-4, 220-pound right-handed starter, went 5-3 with a 2.85 ERA in 13 starts, including three complete games, for the Dons in Keep Reading
MLB’s 2012 Top 5 Draft Prospects
With the MLB’s draft coming up in June, its time to look at the top prospects available to teams. 1: Bryon Buxton OF Appling County High school Bryon Buxton is most similar to Carl Crawford when he played for the Tampa Bay Rays. Bryon has lightning fast speed, a good glove, great bat and he Keep Reading
Royals organization doesn’t understand anatomy behind throwing a baseball
Royals fans, today we finally have the reason the Kansas City Royals have been completely inept and unsuccessful in developing starting pitching in the organization. Simply put, Royals officials do not understand the process of the human body throwing a pitch. Well, they didn’t understand it until team officials met with fire-baller 19 year-old Baltimore Keep Reading












