Matt Cain entered this season having allowed 129 homers over 1,536.2 innings (0.76 HR/9). This year, he’s already served up nine home runs over 34.2 innings. Put differently, he’s allowed the same amount of long balls this month as he did all of the 2011 season, which spanned 221.2 innings. Cain...
Watch out baseball. The drawbridge to the Kansas City Royals fortress of minor league prospects has slowly started to lower to reveal the giant stockpile within.
First up across the midseason moat to the major leagues: First baseman Eric Hosmer, who was called up from Triple-A Omaha after...
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Eric Hosmer opened his season in the Pacific Coast League, having made just 211 plate appearances above Single-A. This year was supposed to be about development, progress, consolidation. Hosmer is considered an elite prospect, sure, but he's only 21. No need for the Kansas City Royals to...