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Bishop Ward receives grant from Kansas City Royals |
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By DICK KAEGEL, Royals.com Bishop Ward High School of Kansas City, Kan., was one of five recipients of a fourth-quarter grant award by the Baseball Tomorrow Fund. Bishop Ward, a private inner-city school, received funding for field renovations including dugouts, bleachers, backstop padding, windscreen and an irrigation system.
The renovations will allow the high school to add a freshman team, expand its camps to low-income players and increase community use of the field. The grant was included in $230,000 given to organizations in five communities. In 2011, a total of $1.7 million was awarded to 55 communities in the U.S. and Canada. The Baseball Tomorrow Fund was formed by Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association in 1999 to promote the growth of youth baseball and softball. BTF also supports the annual equipment drives at big league parks including Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. This year more than 15,000 pieces of equipment and $157,000 in cash were donated through MLB clubs. Gotta run!. Posted in royals-news | Comments Off
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Royals Elect Not to Tender Contract to Laffey |
KANSAS CITY — The Kansas City Royals announced today that the club will not tender a 2012 Major League contract to left-handed pitcher Aaron Laffey. The remaining 31 unsigned players on the 40-man Major League roster will be tendered Major League contracts for 2012. Pitchers Noel Arguelles, Jonathan Broxton, Bruce Chen, Aaron Crow and Joakim Soria, as well as designated hitter Billy Butler and outfielder Jeff Francoeur are signed for 2012. The Royals roster now stands at 38. Laffey, 26, was claimed on outright waivers by the Royals on October 11. Leave any suggestions in the comment box. Posted in royals-news | Comments Off
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Royals Trade Navarro For RHP Pounders |
ROYALS ACQUIRE MINOR LEAGUERS POUNDERS AND GORIS FROM PIRATES FOR NAVARRO DALLAS, TX (December 7, 2011) – The Kansas City Royals announced tonight that the club has acquired minor league right-handed pitcher Brooks Pounders and infielder Diego Goris from the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for infielder Yamaico Navarro. Pounders has been assigned to the Wilmington (A Advanced) roster while Goris was assigned to Burlington (R). Following the trade, the Royals 40-man Major League roster stands at 39.
Pounders, 21, posted a 5-5 record with a 3.68 ERA in 36 games (one start) for Class A West Virginia in 2011. In 66.0 innings, the 6-foot-4, 255-pounder allowed 61 hits while striking out 72 against just 14 walks. The Pirates’ second round selection (53rd overall) in the 2009 Draft is a native of Temecula, Calif. The 20-year-old Goris, who turns 21 tomorrow, hit .350 with 20 doubles, four triples, five home runs, 46 RBI and 53 runs scored for the Pirates’ Dominican Summer League club in 2011. The 6-foot-2, 165-pound right-handed hitter also stole 15 bases in 18 attempts. Goris, a native of Santiago in the Dominican Republic, is a career .302 hitter over four seasons in the Pittsburgh system, having been named an All-Star in the Dominican in both 2010 and 2011. Navarro, 24, was acquired by the Royals from the Boston Red Sox on July 30 in exchange for infielder Mike Aviles. He hit .304 in six games for the Royals and is a career .206 batter at the Major League level in 42 contests. If you like reading our blog, remember to bookmark it. Posted in royals-news | Comments Off
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Royals prepare for big event to the K |
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Major League Baseball representatives are revealing some of the details of All Star Week in Kansas City next year. That’s all for today guys, i’ll be back to blog you tomorrow. Posted in royals-news | Comments Off
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Giants acquire Melky Cabrera in trade with Royals |
(Reuters) – The Kansas City Royals traded outfielder Melky Cabrera to the San Francisco Giants for left-handed pitcher Jonathan Sanchez and minor league prospect Ryan Verdugo, the Major League Baseball teams said on Monday. Cabrera, 27, hit .305 in his only season with the Royals after spending five years with the New York Yankees and the 2010 season with Atlanta. He had career highs in batting average, home runs (18) and runs batted in (87) last season. Sanchez, 28, posted a 13-9 record with the Giants during their 2010 World Series title season but slumped to 4-7 in 2011 and missed the final month of the season with a sprained left ankle. He pitched a no-hitter for the Giants in 2009. Verdugo, also a left-hander, went 8-6 in the minor leagues last season. (Reporting by Gene Cherry in Salvo, North Carolina; Editing by Frank Pingue) Thanks for reading! . Posted in royals-news | Comments Off
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Ex-New York Yankees Pitching Coach Eiland Joins… |
The Kansas City Royals hired former Eiland, 45, was replaced by Larry Rothschild in New York The Royals had a 4.44 earned run average this season, The 2009 Yankees’ staff registered 103 regular-season wins To contact the reporter on this story: To contact the editor responsible for this story: Feel free to leave your comments below. Posted in royals-news | Comments Off
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The high school field is used by the varsity and junior varsity teams as well as by American Legion teams, Wyandotte County youth leagues and a summer camp for county players aged 8 to 19.