Ladies and gents, when you are at MLBTR or somewhere else and you see that the Royals have just done something (sign, trade, release, etc.), please check the existing fanposts and fanshots before creating one for the event.  We currently have at least three separate posts on the Royals signing Kendall.  An infinite number of posts analyzing the same transaction are fine.  But we really only need one notification post.  There will be other moves (large(ish) and small) this offseason.  Let's try to avoid duplicates.

Now back to the entirely appropriate Dayton Moore bashing.

On May 28, Katherine Olivia (aka "lil NYRoyal") was born.  She was 8 lbs., 11 oz. and 19 7/8 inches long.  She eats a lot, poops a lot, her favorite stat is tRA and her favorite player is Brian Bannister.  She has good taste.

Baby, mother and father are all doing well, but tired and frazzled, as one would expect.  For better or worse (undoubtedly both), my contributions on the site will continue to be infrequent for a while.  Sometime this month I'll report May's RCI and post the questions for June's RCI.

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6 months ago: Kansas City Royals' Brian Bannister pitches in the second inning against the St. Louis Cardinals in a baseball game, Sunday, May 24, 2009, in St. Louis.(AP Photo/Tom Gannam)

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Banny = Stopper

Bale = Savior

We're a month into the season and the Royals are off to a good start for once.  Gordon is on the DL, Bloomquist is hitting and Greinke is on the road to the Cy Young Award.  Most of us probably feel pretty good, but with more than a little wariness about what the next month and the rest of the season will bring.  Will the pitching cool down when the weather heats up?  Will the hitting turn around?  Has it already turned around?  Lots of questions.  But how do you feel?

The RCI for April (preseason) was 6.34.  Has the mood of the fanbase changed?  Let's see.

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In Greg Schaum's post-game show on 610, he reported the following story which is disjointed and full of holes due to the fact that I don't think anyone, including Schaum knows even half of what is going on here:

In spring training, Royals pitching prospect Dan Gutierrez roomed with Scott Boras clients Mike Moustakas and Eric Hosmer.  Sometime this spring Gutierrez switched agents and became a Boras client.  Also this spring, Gutierrez has been rehabbing from some sort of non-major injury (which is why he's been in extended spring training and not assigned to a minor league team).  Apparently some conflict arose recently between the Boras/Gutierrez camp and the Royals about who Gutierrez should be working out and rehabbing with.  Boras/Gutierrez wants it to be their guy and the Royals want it to be their guy.  The conflict has gotten heated enough that the Royals have "sent Gutierrez home for personal reasons."

End of story.  We have no more details at this time.  Check comments for more information as it becomes available.

Everyone has been enchanted by Alberto Callaspo's amazing start.  Inteestingly, this performance was made possible by Alex Gordon's hip injury.  So many of us have wondered what might happen or what should happen when Gordon comes back.  Suddenly there would be too many players for too few positions.  There has been talk about potentially moving Gordon or Teahen to first base, or some other significant position change.  This is what I would do:

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