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Bruce Chen - S - Royals

Bruce Chen yielded six runs on seven hits over four innings Friday in a loss to the Orioles.

Chen had a disastrous fifth inning -- allowing five consecutive base runners -- and was eventually relieved by Kelvin Herrera. Of his 86 pitches, 56 were for strikes. Chen will look to rebound in his next start Wednesday against the Indians.
May 25 - 11:19 PM
Jeff Francoeur - OF - Royals

Jeff Francoeur went 3-for-4 with a home run in Friday's game against the Orioles.

Francoeur is now hitting 9-for-25 (.360) in his last seven games. He's unlikely to repeat his numbers from last season, of course, but he remains a useful option in AL-only and deeper mixed leagues.
May 25 - 11:12 PM
Danny Duffy - S - Royals

Danny Duffy is scheduled to undergo Tommy John surgery Thursday.

Dr. Lewis Yocum recently confirmed the Royals' diagnosis of a torn ulnar collateral ligament in Duffy's left elbow. The promising 23-year-old will be sidelined for the rest of the season and the early part of 2013.
Source: Bob Dutton on Twitter
May 25 - 5:43 PM
Blake Wood - R - Royals

Blake Wood underwent successful Tommy John surgery Friday.

Wood will miss the rest of the season and figures to be a little behind at the start of the 2013 campaign. The 26-year-old right-hander had a 3.75 ERA and 62/32 K/BB ratio over 69 2/3 innings out of the Royals' bullpen last year.
Source: Bob Dutton on Twitter
May 25 - 5:42 PM
Salvador Perez - C - Royals

Updating a previous item, Salvador Perez (knee) went 4-for-4 with a home run and caught three innings in an extended spring training game Friday.

Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star originally reported that Perez was expected to catch Saturday for the first time since knee surgery, but it actually happened on Friday. He's slated to DH on Saturday. The early word is that the 22-year-old backstop is ahead of schedule, so there's a chance we'll see him back with the Royals by the end of June.
Source: Bob Dutton on Twitter
May 25 - 5:23 PM
Jonathan Sanchez - S - Royals

Jonathan Sanchez (biceps tendinitis) is expected to make his first minor league rehab start Tuesday with Triple-A Omaha.

Sanchez landed on the disabled list earlier this month with left biceps tendinitis. It's not clear how many rehab starts he'll need. The 29-year-old left-hander had a miserable 6.75 ERA and 18/22 K/BB in 25 1/3 innings prior to the injury.
Source: Bob Dutton on Twitter
May 25 - 5:19 PM
Salvador Perez - C - Royals

Salvador Perez (knee) is scheduled to catch three innings Saturday in extended spring training.

It will be his first game action since March surgery to repair a left lateral meniscus tear. If all goes well in his rehab, he could rejoin the Royals in late June.
Source: Bob Dutton on Twitter
May 25 - 5:16 PM
Alex Gordon - OF - Royals

Alex Gordon went 0-for-3 with a walk in Wednesday's 8-3 setback to the Yankees.

Gordon has only 10 hits in his last 15 games, lowering his batting average 38 points to .235. Will his 2011 breakout season be remembered as a sign of things to come, or as an outlier in an otherwise adequate career? With four homers and only one steal, the former first round pick has a ways to go to get back on track.
May 24 - 6:26 AM
William Smith - S - Royals

Making his major-league debut, Royals righty Will Smith allowed five runs on six hits and three home runs in just 3 1/3 innings of Wednesday's loss to the Yankees.

Agent K may need to wipe Smith's memory after this one. The 2008 seventh-round pick served up a first-inning shot to Curtis Granderson and a pair of bombs to Alex Rodriguez. If Smith gets sent back to the minors in the next 24 hours, we'll be suspicious tonight's outing was some sort of viral marketing on the part of Men In Black III. Smith is well off the fantasy radar.
May 23 - 10:20 PM
Eric Hosmer - 1B - Royals

Eric Hosmer went 3-for-4 with a double and RBI in Wednesday's loss to the Yankees.

He also stole a base. Two of the hits were infield singles, but we doubt the .191/.260/.333 hitting Hosmer is keeping count. The multi-hit night was just Hosmer's third in 19 May starts. It's a nice start, but one good night does not a slump end. Hosmer and the Royals will get hard-throwing Orioles righty Jason Hammel on Friday. Lefties are hitting just .219 off Hammel this season.
May 23 - 10:14 PM
Nate Adcock - R - Royals

Nate Adcock will have a turn skipped in the rotation, making his next start Monday in Cleveland.

The Royals will move Bruce Chen, Felipe Paulino and Luke Hochevar up ahead of Adcock to start in the series against the Orioles. Adcock held the Diamondbacks to one run on five hits in five innings last weekend.
Source: Royals.mlb.com
May 23 - 8:49 PM
Jeff Francoeur - OF - Royals

Jeff Francoeur belted his third home run of the season in a losing effort against the Yankees on Tuesday.

He finished the night 2-for-4. After getting off to a slow start Francoeur has picked up the pace as of late, hitting .316 with a pair of homers and four RBI over his last nine games. While he's unlikely to match his stellar numbers from a year ago, he's still a capable fourth or fifth fantasy outfielder in most leagues.
May 22 - 10:03 PM
Luke Hochevar - S - Royals

Luke Hochevar pitched fairly well in Tuesday’s loss to the Yankees, allowing three runs on six hits over 6 2/3 innings.

He punched out eight and walked three in the game. Though Hochevar now sits at 3-5 with a 6.61 ERA, he has actually pitched better of late. He’ll never live up to the high hopes of being the first overall pick in the draft, but the righty still has the stuff of a solid major league starter. He’ll look to get back in the win column when he squares off against the Indians in Cleveland on Monday.
May 22 - 10:00 PM
Yuniesky Betancourt - 2B - Royals

Yuniesky Betancourt (ankle) is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment Thursday at the Double-A level.

Betancourt has been out of commission since May 2 with an ankle sprain. It is fully healed by now and he should be ready to return to the bigs by the end of May.
Source: Bob Dutton on Twitter
May 22 - 5:04 PM
Blake Wood - R - Royals

Royals transferred RHP Blake Wood from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day disabled list.

The move clears a spot for the newly-promoted Will Smith on the 40-man roster. Wood is expected to undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery in the next couple of weeks and figures to miss the early part of the 2013 season.
May 22 - 2:58 PM

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