Recycling is very popular now, but baseball teams have been re-using seemingly washed-up veteran players for years. Most times it doesn’t work out - Father Time remains undefeated. But sometimes a new environment, a better clubhouse, and fresh legs can revive a player’s career.
The Royals have had some pretty gambles on reclamation projects work out in the past. These are players that were once good, fell upon some bad years, then resurrected their career in a Royals uniform. Here are the top ten career revivals in Royals history.
10. Jose Lima
Believe it! Lima won 21 games with the Astros in 1999, but the very next year his ERA ballooned to 6.