Kansas City has been off to a pretty good start this spring and that speaks volumes to the strength that they have in their farm system. A large number of these prospects are ready or very close to ready for prime time and this could make the Royals a much more formidable foe in the coming years.

Their have been a few notable occurrences this week for KC. Their center fielder David DeJesus, usually known for a good BA/OBP finally got a hit. He is now hitting .100 for the spring with 20 AB’s. Most other Royal outfielders have picked up the pace though.

Alex Gordon has been pretty much what KC is looking for at third. So far he’s .353/.450/.588 over 17 AB’s. Mark Teahan, who had a breakout second-half in ‘06 and last years third-baseman, has picked right up where he left off as well hitting .333/.375/.533 though he has struck out 6 times to 1 walk.

Overall the Royals offense is 4th overall in team batting average with .318 and 5th in OBP with .386 and 6th in SLG with .494. Not bad at all. Pitching is a bit different story but not really a bad one. They haven’t really been raking up the strikeouts but they haven’t been with walks either getting 44 SO/29 BB. They rank 8th in team ERA with 4.37 (Tigers are 17th with 5.15).

The Royals are starting to show some depth in the field as well as real offensive prowess. Thier pitching is really coming around and there are some real prospects around the corner that they should be excited about. So far they’ve seen quite a bit that they should be happy with, we’ll see if it continues; it should.

Sunday, March 4th - Kansas City Royals: 0 Texas Rangers: 5 - LOSS
Monday, March 5th - Kansas City Royals: 9 San Diego Padres: 4 - WIN
Tuesday, March 6th - Kansas City Royals: 3 Oakland Athletics: 2 - WIN
Wednesday, March 7th - Kansas City Royals: 10 Chicago White Sox: 5 - WIN
Thursday, March 8th - Kansas City Royals: 11 Seattle Mariners: 3 - WIN

I am also currently listening to KC v LAA - Tie game (3-3) on Gameday Audio.