Steve James

Chiefs, Royals, Mizzou, and great beer.

[Prep Baseball Missouri @PrepBaseballMO]

𝐌𝐎 ➡️ 𝐀𝐓𝐋 ✈️

C Colin Arnold (Lee's Summit) is Locked In 🔐 to represent Team Select at the 2026 @prepbaseball Future Games!

👤 https://t.co/lQC2aXDW7T // @colinarnold2028

[Prep Baseball Kansas @PrepBaseballKS]

‘28 | OF/RHP | Wyatt Cole (Lee’s Summit North)

The two-way athlete shined on the mound, keeping hitters off balance with a FB that jumped on hitters and SL for strikes in all counts.

FB: 83-85
SL: 67-70

#CavsSD26
@CavClubBaseball // @CavsUncommitted

@PrepBaseballMO

[Grant James @GrantJames_17]

Excited for another tournament with the guys! @KCmonarchs_ @LSCoach13
Starting the @PG_Tourney WWBA Championship tomorrow in the Atlanta metro after a big weekend in the outfield and at the plate:

.700 AVG (14-for-20)
.750 SLG
.739 OBP
1.489 OPS

[KC Monarchs - Davis @KCmonarchs_]

Looking forward to the @PG_Tourney 16U WWBA National Championship & competing with the best!
📍Marietta, GA
@colinarnold | @Bryce_Watkinson | @Nxoah1Nxoah |
@bryce_davis7 | @milesbennaka | @Lucas_Tucker09 | @tanner_burt11 | @GrantJames_17 | @Micah_neal21

[Sanjay Sujanthakumar @tha_Real_Kumar]

#USMNT striker Folarin Balogun on his immediate reaction to red card:

“I think it was just important to stay calm. I never want to react out of anger and out of emotion. There’s still lots of people we’re inspiring, little kids, boys and girls who are watching, and we have to show them the correct way to handle things, even when you think it's unjust.”

On shaking ref’s hand postgame:

“As said, you can feel like something, injustice can happen to you. It’s not an excuse to be disrespectful… I'm aware that the World Cup might be the first time a lot of American viewers are tuning in. So it's important just to show people, whether things happen to you, good or bad, just to continue to be yourself.”

[Steve Bennaka @stttteve]

2028 P/OF @Bryce_Watkinson (@KCmonarchs_/@FortOBaseball) with just about the most efficient no-hitter you’ll ever see: 4.0 IP, 0H, 1BB, 3K, 32 total pitches. Kept hitters off balance all day and helped himself out with a little defense too.

[Steve Bennaka @stttteve]

2028 P/IF Noah Kluck (@KCmonarchs_/@LSNbaseball) had a dominant day on the mound, tossing a complete game shutout on 106 pitches. Final line: 7.0 IP, 4H, 0R, 1BB, 7K. Check out the nifty pickoff move to steal an extra out.

[MLB @MLB]

The biggest issue baseball fans want solved to strengthen the game is fixing the payroll disparity that leaves too many fans without hope of their team competing for a World Series title. Every other major U.S. sport has tackled this problem, and every year more small market teams in those leagues have a chance to win. The salary cap and floor proposal levels the playing field, allowing us greater flexibility to address longstanding player priorities while sharing baseball revenue with the players 50/50.

Today, in addition to proposing the largest ever increase in the minimum salary, earned by over half of MLB players, we accepted two landmark changes to free agency that have been in place for 50 years. We agreed to both the MLBPA’s proposal to provide earlier access to free agency, and their proposal to eliminate the qualifying offer system, a provision players view as a drag on free agency. We also proposed to eliminate deferred compensation and to create a new “Cornerstone Player” provision similar to the NBA’s “Bird Rights” to give every team a fair shot at retaining their fans’ favorite star players.

We will continue working with the MLBPA during the bargaining process to improve the game for teams, players and fans.

[KC Monarchs - Davis @KCmonarchs_]

2028 | RHP | Tanner Burt (@tanner_burt11 // @BshsWildcat) earned a quality W for @KCmonarchs_ 16U in the #Super16 after a strong 6-inning outing!

6 IP | 6 K | 80-84 MPH 🔥

@PrepBaseballMO

[KC Monarchs - Davis @KCmonarchs_]

2028 | 3B | Micah Neal (@Micah_neal21 // @LSNbaseball) had himself a day 💥

2 💣💣 and a 2B for 4 RBIs in a @KCmonarchs_ 11-6 W ‼️

Neal is batting .519 on the season with 14 hits 🔥

@PrepBaseballMO
#Super16

[Steve Bennaka @stttteve]

Nice 3-hit night from 2028 OF @Lucas_Tucker09 (@KCmonarchs_/@FortOBaseball), including a double and a triple. Tons of power and speed, and really heating up at the plate.

[Prep Baseball Scouting @pbtscouting]

2028 | RHP/SS | Wyatt Cole
(@CavClubBaseball-Maroon)

Strong performance on the mound from Cole. Good command of FB/CB combo. Athletic play coming off the mound at the end 👏

7K over 7IP

FB (83-85) T86
BB (70-72) (2400-2500)

#Super16 | @PrepBaseballMO |
#PBKC1

[KC Monarchs - Davis @KCmonarchs_]

2028 | OF | Lucas Tucker (@Lucas_Tucker09) is a 5-Tool player! Speed, strength, and power + he’s a multi-sport athlete‼️

Congratulations!!

[KC Monarchs - Davis @KCmonarchs_]

2028 | C/3B | Colin Arnold (@colinarnold2028)

Arnold turned on an 80mph fastball for a 2-run 💣 to right CF‼️

90EV/370ft

@PrepBaseballMO
#Super16

[Steve Bennaka @stttteve]

2028 IFs Jacob Kluck (SS) and Noah Kluck (2B) (@KCmonarchs_ /@LSNbaseball) put on a defensive clinic with multiple highlight reel plays in a big Monarchs win.

[Steve Bennaka @stttteve]

2028 RHP/IF @bryce_davis7 (@KCmonarchs_ /@LSNbaseball ) with one of grittiest pitching performances of the summer so far, picking up the win with a 98-pitch CG.

Final line: 7IP, 4H, 1R, 2BB, 5K. Retired 12 straight at one point in an intense game that went down to the wire.

[Prep Baseball Scouting @pbtscouting]

2028 | 3B/SS | Micah Neal (@Micah_neal21 , @KCmonarchs_ , @PrepBaseballMO )

Stays inside and meets it out front hammering it over the CF for a stand up double.

Quick hands

#PBKCSummerClassic | #PBKC2

[Prep Baseball Scouting @pbtscouting]

2028 | 1B/OF | Miles Bennaka (@milesbennaka , @KCmonarchs_ , @PrepBaseballMO )

No stride swing and gets the barrel out ripping it back up the middle at 94EV for an RBI single.

#PBKCSummerClassic | #PBKC2

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Steve Bennaka @stttteve]

2028 OF @GrantJames_17 (@KCmonarchs_ ) had a monster weekend, slashing .667/.692/1.167, including 1 HR, 1 3B, 1 2B, and 5 1B in 12 ABs. Made some nice catches in LF as well. @LSCoach13 @PrepBaseballKC