| 5/14/2013 11:36:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler, off a 5-for-5 Monday night, should continue producing as he's a career .462 hitter against Tuesday's scheduled starter Jason Vargas. | Insight: Butler is batting just .261 this season, but is an excellent man in the clutch with 25 RBI and a .357 average with runners in scoring position. | | |
| Hot | 5/7/2013 9:34:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler is a career .833 batter (5-for-6) against Baltimore starter Wei-Yin Chen with four extra base hits including a pair of home runs and a 3.167 OPS. | Insight: Sure, it's a small sample size, but the numbers don't lie. After a slow start, Butler is batting .325 with an .854 OPS over the past 11 games. He's a must start. | | |
| Hot | 5/6/2013 11:57:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler is a career .320 batter (8-for-25) versus White Sox ace Chris Sale with three homers and a 1.037 OPS. | Insight: Butler started slowly this season, but is batting .343 with an .883 OPS over the past two weeks and this matchup should continue his march up the rankings. | | |
| Cold | 4/27/2013 9:56:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler is just a career .214 hitter (3-for-14) when facing Cleveland starter Scott Kazmir. All three hits are singles. | Insight: He's a .299 lifetime hitter with a solid .830 OPS, batting .254 this season, but he's still managed to keep his OPS over .800 and is a useful bat in any fantasy lineup on most days. | | |
| Cold | 4/25/2013 6:14:00 PM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler is just a career .214 hitter (3-for-14) when facing Cleveland starter Scott Kazmir. All three hits are singles. | Insight: He's a .299 lifetime hitter with a solid .830 OPS, batting .254 this season, but he's still managed to keep his OPS over .800 and is a useful bat in any fantasy lineup on most days. | | |
| 4/25/2013 9:34:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler is one of the few hitters in baseball who performs well against Tigers ace Justin Verlander. Butler is 21-for-53 (.396) with two homers, nine RBI and a 1.033 OPS against Verlander. | Insight: Butler is only hitting .214 this year, but he does have 12 walks and 13 RBI. Seeing Verlander Thursday may actually help get his bat going. | | |
| 4/14/2013 11:56:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler has amassed 964 hits in his seven-year major league career. Only one of the 964 has come against Blue Jays righthander Brandon Morrow. | Insight: Butler's other 11 trips to the plate versus Morrow have all resulted in outs. You can start him on Sunday if you want, just don't expect Butler to have a big fantasy day. | | |
| 4/7/2013 7:31:00 PM |
Description: Kansas City DH/1B Billy Butler drove in seven of the Royals' nine runs Sunday against Philadelphia. | Insight: Four of those runs came across on a fifth inning grand slam. Butler is still hitting just .211 for the season and prior to Sunday, he had just one RBI in five games. The good news is that he's coming back to Kauffman Stadium Monday after playing his first six games on the road. Butler hit .322 at home last season with 11 HR and 51 RBI. | | |
| 4/5/2013 1:59:00 PM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler will have trouble getting his usual number of at-bats this weekend as the Royals travel to Philadelphia where there will be no designated hitter. | Insight: Butler went just 1-for-11 in the opening series. He will likely play in the next two games as the Phillies will start a pair of left-handers over the weekend - John Lannan and Cole Hamels. Expect Eric Hosmer to sit against the southpaws and Butler to start at 1B. | | |
| 4/4/2013 7:49:00 PM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler went 0-for-4 Thursday and 1-for-11 in the first series of the 2013 season. | Insight: Butler's HR/FB spiked to 19.9 percent last season (11.4 percent career rate) and he hit a career-high 29 homers. That's not something fantasy owners should expect him to duplicate, although he's a sure bet to hit .300 and slug at least 20 round-trippers. | | |
| 4/3/2013 11:41:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler has had very good success when facing White Sox starter Jake Peavy. He owns a career .444 batting average (12-for-27) with three homers and a 1.331 OPS. | Insight: Butler was 1-for-3 in the opener with a walk. He enjoyed a career-year for Kansas City in 2012, batting .313 with 29 homers and 107 RBI. He's a must-start option on Wednesday. | | |
| 11/15/2012 1:31:00 PM |
Description: The Mariners are looking to acquire Royals DH Billy Butler in a trade according to Ken Rosenthal from Fox Sports. | Insight: Clearly, Seattle is looking to add a hitter after finishing last in the major leagues in batting average last season. Butler enjoyed a career-year for Kansas City in 2012, smacking 29 homers and 107 RBI to the tune of an outstanding .313 batting average. | | |
| 9/23/2012 10:20:00 AM |
Description: Don't be surprised if Royals designated hitter Billy Butler has a big game Sunday against Cleveland. He's hitting .417 versus Indians starter David Huff. | Insight: Butler drove in his 100th run of the season on Saturday. The last Kansas City player to reach 100 RBI before Butler was Carlos Beltran back in 2003. | | |
| 9/19/2012 9:45:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler has a career .350 batting average against White Sox ace Chris Sale with three homers and six RBI in just 20 at-bats. | Insight: Butler is having one of the best seasons of his career, batting .309 with a career-high 27 HR, 97 RBI and a .875 OPS. Make sure he's in your lineup on Wednesday. | | |
| 9/18/2012 9:28:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler has 27 home runs this season, but against White Sox starter Gavin Floyd he's merely a singles hitter. He's a career 8-for-37 against Floyd with just a .473 OPS. | Insight: Butler is having one of the best seasons of his career, batting .310 with a career-high 27 HR, 95 RBI and a .878 OPS. Tuesday is a matchup to be avoided. | | |
| Hot | 9/4/2012 9:56:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler is a career .667 hitter (8-for-12) against Texas left-hander Matt Harrison with a homer and a 1.667 OPS. | Insight: Butler is having one of the best seasons of his career, batting .309 with a career-high 25 HR, 85 RBI and a .877 OPS. He's had an excellent second half, batting .338 since the All-Star break and is a must-start on Tuesday. | | |
| Hot | 8/28/2012 10:07:00 AM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler may be one of the few hitters who doesn't cringe at the sight of Justin Verlander on the mound as he's a career .348 hitter (16-for-46) against the Tigers ace with a pair of homers. | Insight: Butler is having the best season of his career, batting .304 with a career-high 25 HR, 81 RBI and a .876 OPS. He's had an excellent second half, batting .329 since the All-Star break. | | |
| Hot | 8/18/2012 3:21:00 PM |
Description: While a matchup with White Sox starter Jake Peavy might not look good on paper, Royals DH Billy Butler should relish the chance to face the right-hander. | Insight: Butler has gone 10-for-25 (.400) with three homers against Peavy. The DH is having a career year, hitting 25 homers with 76 RBIs and putting up his usual .300 batting average (.302). | | |
| 8/9/2012 10:32:00 PM |
Description: DH Billy Butler anchored the Kansas City offense by providing three extra-base hits as the Royals went on to win by a score of 8-2 Thursday night in Baltimore. | Insight: Butler's one-out triple in the fifth inning was his first three-bagger of the year and just the fourth of his career. He's now on pace to drive in 105 runs this season, which would establish a new career-high for the 26-year-old designated hitter. | | |
| Hot | 8/7/2012 10:55:00 PM |
Description: Royals DH Billy Butler homered for the second straight game Tuesday against the White Sox in his first multi-hit game of August. | Insight: Butler set a new career high with his 22nd homer of the season Tuesday. | | |
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