Melky Cabrera has been one of the Royals' best players this season. Seriously. (AP) The Royals entered this season with by far the best farm system in baseball and have since stocked their major league roster with prospects, including first baseman Eric Hosmer, second baseman Johnny Giavotella, ...

Back in the old days, when the Royals were good, George Brett used to terrorize the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. He was a career .311/.390/.509 hitter at the old ballpark, bashing 18 doubles and 17 home runs in 350 at-bats. That only counts the regular season; in seven playoff games set in the Bronx, he ...

The arrival of first-base prospect Eric Hosmer heralds a coming renaissance in Kansas City. (AP) The list of American League teams with winning records entering today’s action does not include the Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, or any of the three pre-season contenders in the AL Central (Chicago, ...

Phil Hughes is still looking for answers (AP). Sabermetrics, as defined by Bill James, is the search for objective knowledge about baseball. The willingness to keep digging for answers is essential to that quest, even if those answers contradict what you think you already know. So it is with a couple ...

This isn’t a new feature, but if you haven’t been read Bronx Banter with any regularity over the last six seasons, it might be new to you. I started writing these previews of each of the Yankees’ regular-season series when I joined Bronx Banter in 2005, and they’ve proven to be ...