Eric Hosmer made the most high profile major league debut for the Royals this season. It came in Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on May 8, 2011 against the Oakland Athletics. He went 0-2 with 2 walks and 2 strikeouts, one of which was a called third strike that clearly was a ball. He also stole a base in that game and started a nice double play as well.
Archive for June 2011
Eric Hosmer Major League Debut custom card Leave a comment
Just Fair 2011: Johnny Cueto and Justin Verlander Leave a comment
So it has been a long while since I posted some new Just Fair cards. I chose a couple pitchers at random today, no real reason for them in particular. My last Just Fair post was over two weeks ago. So if you had 85 cards in the pool of when I would get tired of the cards you have won. With this addition I have 87 cards in the set. My goal was to have a big set by the end of the season, obviously that isn’t going to happen. I will try to keep going with them to give my site so diversity from being an all Royals site be I really don’t know how many more I will do. I have other projects that interest me a lot more right now.
Tim Collins Major League Debut custom card Leave a comment
Tim Collins made his major league debut for the Kansas City Royals on opening day 2011. It was March 31, 2011 in Kauffman Stadium. Collins pitched 1 inning while giving up one hit, walking one and striking one batter out in his scoreless inning.
Louis Coleman Major League Debut custom card Leave a comment
Royals reliever Louis Coleman made his major league debut against the Cleveland Indians in Kauffman Stadium. He pitched 2 shutout innings while giving up a walk and 2 hits and striking out a batter.
Mustangs review: Game #5 6/11/11 Leave a comment
The St. Joe Mustangs took the field with an 8-2 record on the June 11th game against the Nevada Griffons. Both of the Mustangs losses have come at the hands of Nevada. The Mustangs would go on to win 8-3 and even their season series against the Griffons to 2-2 and improve their overall record to 9-2. The attendance for the game was a season high 3176.
Center fielder Cameron Bentley impressed with a 4-4 performance with 2 runs scored. Brent Seifert was at third for the first home game I have attended this year. He looks to have slimmed down since last year and was almost physically unrecognizable. Seifert would drive in a run on a RBI triple early in the game. Starting pitcher Jayson Huett would pitch into the 7th inning and leave to a nice ovation from a big crowd after a solid performance. He pitched 6 2/3 innings while scattering 7 hits and 2 runs and striking out 6.
It was fitting that Huett would get the start on Saturday. It was “Bearcat Night” in honor of Northwest Missouri State University, the college that Huett attends. The Mustangs donned green jerseys that were auctioned off at a silent auction during the game. The team also wore red hats in honor of Scott Bostwick, the Northwest football coach that recently passed away before ever getting to coach his first game for the team as a Head Coach. Bostwick had been the defensive coordinator for the past several years and always wore a red hat on the sidelines so his players on the field could easily see him in the crowd of green on the Northwest sideline.
The Mustangs wearing green in honor of "Bearcat Night."
1983 Topps Royals: Aaron Crow and Joakim Soria Leave a comment
QUICK THOUGHTS: This Soria card has now been posted by me either 3 or 4 times so you may have seen it before. Aaron Crow is almost unrecognizable without a beard now. That is all.
Mike Moustakas 2011 Royals Futures Game custom card Leave a comment
Many times I feel like I post things on my site too quickly and people don’t have a chance to find them. I like keeping up a high turnover on the site so there is something new hopefully almost every time a visitor comes to my site. Because of this I feel like some of my cards get overlooked.
I dug out this Mike Moustakas card to post today because lets face it, everything is about Mike Moustakas right now. I have done this a couple times so far I might make it a regular feature, call it “flashback” or “In Case You Missed It.”
This card of Moose is from the Royals futures game on April 2nd 2011 at Kauffman Stadium. I attended the game an was likely more excited for it than any Royals game in a very long time. I made a complete set to commemorate the game. It is another original design, I will re-post several of these in the coming weeks.
Mike Moustakas Major Legue Debut card Leave a comment
I whipped up this design a couple weeks ago for a local professional team named the St. Joe Mustangs and really enjoyed the design. I liked it so much that I decided I had to figure out a way to do something with the Royals in this design. I combined this design with an idea I had for my “2011 Just Fair” set. I thought about making a special parallel/short print type variation with a different picture of the player and their Major League debut on the front of the card. I saw the black line at the bottom of this card and the puzzle pieces really fell right into place.
So I made the set. The set consisted of 6 cards until tonight (Eric Hosmer, Danny Duffy, Everett Teaford, Louis Coleman, Tim Collins and Aaron Crow) and those cards will get posted soon. I decided that the next player to make his Major League debut for the Kansas City Royals would be the launch of this little subset I came up with. It just so happened that it was Mike Moustakas.
For the record Moustakas went 1-3 with a broken bat single(Nick Scott reference not intended) and a walk and run. I predicted 1-3 with a double and a walk and a strikeout with an RBI. I was close.
This is an idea I am proud of and think I would like to continue, possibly for years. I would reserve these cards for only those who made their Major League debut for the Royals from now on. For instance, Lorenzo Cain would not fit in the set because he has logged time with the Brewers. If someone like Iriving Falu would happen to get called up to spell Alcides Escobar, he would get a card in this set. Over the next couple weeks I will occasionally slip one of these cards in as my Custom Card of the Day.
2011 Topps Mike Moustakas custom card 4 comments
Royals top prospect Mike Moustakas got the call and will make his major league debut tonight in California. I have to be honest, I really thought that it would be September before Mike Moustakas and Eric Hosmer both were in the Kansas City lineup. I am happy, this adds excitement to the Royals who realistically haven’t been exciting for a very long time.
This card of Moustakas is from my spring training custom set. The call-up actually means that Mike Moustakas will have a real card in the Topps update set this year! That doesn’t come out until September-October but I can’t wait to try to pull a Hosmer or Moustakas rookie card out of the set.
Everybody is throwing out predictions for Moustakas’ first game, here is mine: 1-3 2B, RBI, 1 BB, 1K.
1983 Topps Royals: Melky Cabrera and Sean O’Sullivan Leave a comment
Melky Cabrera just hit a 3-run home run, how many 3-run homers have the Royals had this year? I don’t know that they have had one. If they have it sure isn’t very many. Sean O’Sullivan is on here because he probably gave Melky a high-5 in the dugout afterwards.
A Hair Off Square 