Alcides Escobar News

Jeff Francoeur and Billy Butler hit home runs, and Alcides Escobar had two hits to lead the Kansas City Royals over the Baltimore Orioles 4-2 on Sunday.

Center fielder Jarrod Dyson left Saturday’s game after colliding with left fielder Alex Gordon in the left-center gap on a play that ended the Baltimore second inning.Club officials characterized the injury as a bruised right hamstring.

Kansas City Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar, left, cannot hold on to a throw from catcher Brayan Pena as Baltimore Orioles' Adam Jones steals second base in the fifth inning ofi 1 2a baseball game in Baltimore, Friday, May 25, 2012.

Billy Butler has hit 9 homeruns so far, and is on pace to hit 34 this year, a season good enough to split third in franchise history with John Mayberry , Dean Palmer and Danny Tartabull .

Through 44 games and nearly 200 plate appearances, he has hit three home runs - one fewer than outfielder Daniel Nava, who was called up by the Red Sox [ team stats ] only three weeks ago.

Moustakas, in his first full season, has been one of the Royals' more-reliable weapons in compiling a .279 average with seven homers, 19 RBIs and a .333 on-base percentage in 39 games.

Moustakas, in his first full season, has been one of the Royals' more-reliable weapons in compiling a .279 average with seven homers, 19 RBIs and a .333 on-base percentage in 39 games.

The West Virginia Power A is a South Atlantic League Class A minor league baseball affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Alex Rodriguez was fed up. Mired in a 52 at-bat homerless streak, he stood before his locker Tuesday night after a Yankees win over the Royals.

Shortstops like Starlin Castro don't come along very often. He's still only 22 years old, and he's already established himself as a star in the making at the big-league level.

That is Alcides Escobar's line through 161 plate appearances. According to this we now have an adequate sample to start discussing swing rate, contact rate, strikeout rate, line drive rate, and pitches per plate appearances.

New York Yankees relief pitcher Rafael Soriano looks skyward after the Kansas City Royals' Alcides Escobar hit into a ninth-inning groundout with a runner on third for the final out in the Yankees 3-2 victory over the Royals during a baseball game in New York, Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

It was not exactly the powerful eruption they've been waiting for, but a few breaks finally went the Yankees' way on Tuesday, and that may be enough to suggest that their fortunes may be about to change.

The discussion around Alcides Escobar focuses mainly on his glovework at shortstop.

Kansas City Royals' Billy Butler celebrates with Alcides Escobar after Butler hit a two-run home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Kansas City, Mo.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Adam Jones hit a two-run homer, J.J. Hardy also drove in a pair of runs and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Kansas City Royals 5-3 on Thursday for their seventh straight road win.

There are thousands of different statistics in baseball.A Some statistics get lots of press - home runs, strike outs, batting average, RBI's, etc.A Some statistics are fairly new and haven't yet been completely absorbed by the collective consciousness of average baseball fans such as BABIP, FIP, WAR , etc.A Other stats may be underrated but are ... (more)

The Omaha Storm Chasers just hit into a prospect double play. Two of the top prospects in minor league baseball were promoted to Omaha from Class AA Northwest Arkansas on Wednesday.

When the Royals signed Jonathan Broxton this offseason, it was a point of both debate and indifference, as hard as that is to believe.