From Chavez Ravine to the new big-league park in Buffalo (! Mondesi has struggled mightily early in the season. Picollo answers those questions and more. How have the Royals jumped out to this six-game win streak? How has Mondesi looked? Coach Sebastian is in his 6th yr with the Royals. He is currently the mens' basketball assistant at Thomas More College. Six wins’ worth of analytics: Explaining the longest Royals win streak since ’18. Bowden: Handing out trade deadline grades for all 30 teams. ", ‘History is being made every minute’: Hope and frustration on Jackie Robinson Day. ‘It changed everything’: How a chance encounter helped Kyle Zimmer find his form. The Royals are 2-4. Are professional athletes paid too much? Bowden: One trade deadline move I’d like to see each team make — Central edition. Simply put, he has put in the work. Custom cleats for a good cause: Behind baseball’s most ‘creative’ initiative. We want to know how you feel about an MLB season unlike any other. ‘Don’t rush’: After leaping to the majors, Royals’ Kris Bubic now must settle in. Los Angeles’ Jerry West led all scorers with 32 points and Elgin Baylor recorded 28 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists. The Celtics postseason run began with an exciting seven-game series against the Cincinnati Royals, who secured a spot in the Eastern Finals after beating the Syracuse Nationals in the Eastern Semifinals (3-2). Boston’s winning ways would continue throughout the decade as they would win five more championships, including the 1969 NBA Finals against the Lakers. How they'll do so speaks to the club's evolution. If so, whom will they sell, and whom will they be able to recoup? Who's in the mood to make too much of small samples? We’re two weeks into this Stranger Things baseball season, and here’s our advice: Embrace the weirdness. The Royals gave their retiring outfielder a special send-off, and the three-time All-Star savored every minute of it. He has been married to Christina for 11 years and has two boys, TJ and Anthony "Gru". Sophomore attackman. The union said the only exceptions it will consider are for 40-man players who want to participate in such a camp for medical reasons. Scouts within Major League Baseball are questioning why they are not allowed to do their jobs, in person, at alternative parks. He coaches several youth teams year around, coordinates a local youth basketball program and also participates in coaching at camps and skills and drills clinics. Why Royals catcher Salvador Perez’s scorching start at the plate is no fluke. Stark: What we learned from the MLB wild-card series. Batters are getting hit at a record rate in 2020 – again. Thusly, the Royals, for the greater part of the decade, employed 40% of the NBA’s elite players. Even if you hate expanding the postseason, the last three days were fun. All rights reserved. During the quarantine, the Royals righty met up with legendary pitching guru Tom House, who helped Zimmer correct some mechanical issues. Losses have, too. Is the Dodgers' first title since 1988 on the horizon? A quantitative analysis. What can we learn from Mike Moustakas and Alex Gordon as it relates to Mondesi? The Dodgers stand alone at the top, but there are some interesting wild-card races shaping up in both leagues. State of the Royals’ offense: Perusing analytics to evaluate each hitter. Simply put, they're getting speed and defense and a winning attitude in Edward Olivares, and they'll need that in coming seasons. You might be surprised. A group of players insists they did nothing improper. The Blue Jays' Nate Pearson was part of a high-powered group of young pitchers whose winter workouts helped them to the big leagues. Royals mailbag: Adalberto Mondesi’s start, Bobby Witt Jr.’s timeline and more. Well, it's complicated. Dave is VP of Supply Force. Rosenthal: After surprising PED tests, MLB players fight to clear their names. Most teams played their 15th game of the season this weekend. Coach Sunderman is the current Badin Girls Varsity Head Coach and has been coaching varsity  basketball for 22 yrs. His motto is to "Get Better Everyday!". After five years running Major League Baseball, who is Rob Manfred as a leader? The Lee Summit's native who once thrived on the national showcase circuit as a young player is now garnering saves for his hometown club. For more information about Cookies and how to adjust them, please see our. Where does Keller stack up among 25-year-old starters in baseball? Have any of them progressed? MLB TV ratings increase over last season, led by women and youth. at Cincinnati Country Day School for over 10 yrs. Seven wins’ worth of analytics: Breaking down where the streaking Royals are. ", With humility through the ups and downs, Alex Gordon came to define a Royals era, "If this is the end, it will mean the end for a franchise stalwart, a homegrown star who became something more: an athlete who embodied KC. Coach Baker has coached boys and girls youth basketball for over 10 years. The ideological question of labor compensation is complex and thorny, but the roots of why players get paid so much are fairly simple. 1, A's and Rays climb while Yankees and Cubs slide. Boston needed to win the final two games to clinch the series after Los Angeles won three of five contests. (PHOTO COURTESY: NBA.com/Celtics). What can we make of Adalberto Mondesi’s offensive struggles through 20 games? Tom Heinsohn led the Green and White with 22 points on 8 of 18 shooting to go with nine rebounds and two assists while Tom Sanders, Bob Cousy, and John Havlicek each scored 18 points. He has a wife of over 20 yrs and two boys who attend Cincinnati and West Virginia. This includes information about the number of visitors to the site, what pages visitors view on our site and how long visitors are viewing pages on the site. He enjoys coaching youth kids the game of basketball, to advance their game to a top level competitivley! There's a new way to own rare vintage and modern cards that normally sell for millions of dollars. Royals mailbag: Biggest takeaways, future lineups, Rule 5 protections. NoontimeSports.com’s Mia Len contributed to today’s ‘On This Date in History’ sports history post. Those answers and plenty more in this Royals mailbag. His number one focus is for his players to develop a high basketball IQ, and to have a competitive edge over every team they play. Rosenthal: How will the 2020 trade deadline be different? How did the Royals turn a six-game losing streak into a four-game winning streak? What a week. Brad Keller’s slider was broken, but the aftermath explains his strides in 2020. He has been the girls Varsity Asst. The idea of the quarantine for contending teams would be for players to get through the COVID-19 incubation period before playoffs begin. Coach Aichele is entering his 5th yr coaching and 2nd season with the Royals. What history says about the Royals’ decision to give Adalberto Mondesi a day off. The Royals righty's sudden lack of slider control panicked him, but it proved to be a temporary result of the mechanical tweaks he has made. The McGinn Files: Bo Jackson’s ‘legendary’ talent is a curiosity 30 years later. Four-inning games, coaches playing the field, and the ins and outs of getting players the work they need to develop during a pandemic. A Big Week for Baseball: How a group of prospects pushed each other to the majors. coach at Miami Hamilton and has been coaching 10 yrs. Dave has worked on developing both our boys and girls program. You know what I've learned from my cerebral friends in this sport? When the trade deadline hits on Aug. 31, only 27 days will remain in the regular season. In 2010, took over as director of Edgewood youth boys basketball league,(EYBBL). MLB and the players union appeared to shore up the deficiencies around where electronic sign stealing took off: the video replay room. Royals prospect checkup: What officials are saying about hitters in fall camp. Cincinnati Royals 1958-1959 Schedule and Results All the scores of the games played by the Royals in the NBA 1958-59 Regular Season and the 1959 Playoffs, with teams, results, winning and losing streaks, partial and final records and evolution of the playoff series. What are we to make of the Royals halfway through their season? Rosenthal: MLB pondering late-season contender lockdowns, postseason bubbles. Royals de Cincinnati. Stark: Handing out my 2020 awards, from Cy Young to Cy Yuk, MVP to LVP. Stark: Will everyone sign off on life in an MLB postseason bubble? Why is Ian Kennedy no longer seeing opportunities solely in the ninth inning?