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Royals Rumblings - News for December 18, 2020
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Programming Note: This is my last real rumblings of the year. Next Friday is Christmas and the week after that is New Year’s so they’re going to be some light OT threads and I may or may not have already written them.
Both Lynn Worthy and Jeffrey Flanagan had stories about Mike Matheny’s Zoom call Thursday. MLB.com won the toss so we’ll start with their story:
The Royals are entering 2021 with a simple mindset: The rebuild is over, and they are ready to compete again for the playoffs. Royals manager Mike Matheny, now in his second year as the skipper, isn’t conceding the American League Central race. The Royals won 12 of their final 18 games in 2020 and believe they have momentum heading into ‘21.
MLB Trade Rumors
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The Twins have signed eight players to minor league pacts with invites to Major League Spring Training, tweets Betsy Helfand of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In addition to their previouslyreported deals with righty
Tzu-Wei Lin, the Twins have re-signed left-hander
Coulombe, 31, tossed 2 2/3 shutout innings with the Twins in 2020 but spent most of the year at their alternate training site in St. Paul. The former A’s and Dodgers lefty has a career 4.19 ERA and 4.10 FIP in 146 innings out of a big league bullpen. He’s averaged about 8.5 K/9 in that time, but Coulombe’s strikeout numbers exploded at the Triple-A level in 2019, when he punched out 61 hitters in just 36 1/3 innings while maintaining a ground-ball rate north of 50 percent. Suffice it to say, he’s an intriguing depth piece.