Royals recap

It's been awhile since I've been able to post anything here, I've been busy with finals and working on relaunching my other site BaseballPivot.com...which should launch within the week.

So the Royals have had an interesting couple of weeks since my last post, lets recap.

The Royals hit bottom on May 10th by falling 6 games under .500 by losing their 3rd straight game to Baltimore.

The Royals finally beat Baltimore 4-0 on the 11th behind 8 shutout innings from Bannister and a perfect 9th by Soria.

Starting with that last game against Baltimore KC goes on to sweep the Tigers and then take 2 of 3 against the Florida Marlins. The Royals won 6 of 7 and crawled within 1 game of .500.

John Buck becomes a proud papa of two. Buck and his wife Brooke are now proud parents giving birth to twin boys, Cooper and Brody. Buck missed the Florida series and rejoined the Royals in Boston.

Joakim Soria and the Royals agree to a contract extension that could go through 2014 and could be worth as much as $32,350,000. I think this is a great move by the Royals, it locks a guy in for the foreseeable future and the option years means the Royals won't get burned. I only hope the Royals get it together and get Greinke under contract...more on that later.

Jose Guillen wins AL player of the week...what? That's right, our very own Jose Guillen has finally gotten it together by hitting .458 with 5 doubles, 2 homers and 13 RBI over the past week, and all of this while being hurt...amazing.

Mark Teahen hits his second home run of the year. Is this really news? Well yes, Teahen hasn't hit a home run since April 3rd against the Tigers-some 141 AB's. This is a corner outfielder folks.

Jon Lester throws a no-hitter against the Royals as they fall to the Red Sox 7-0. It is the first no-hitter against the Royals since Nolan Ryan did it back in 1973. I watched the first 3 innings of the game and it didn't look like Lester was throwing all that well, but then again as bad as the Royals bats have been this year anything can happen.

So there you have it, some good and some bad, but interesting none the less.