It’s not easy for Royals manager Ned Yost to wear down the concrete sidewalks of the team’s sprawling spring-training facility in Arizona these days.
He has spent the last three weeks zipping through the campus in a golf cart, playfully screeching to a halt on the gravel whenever he’s needed near the main building and gleefully accepting passengers on the Yostmobile’s journeys to and from the four outer fields.
By all appearances, Yost has enjoyed the vehicle he told reporters he didn’t want when pitchers and catchers held their first workout on Feb. 14.
“They gave me a cart,” Yost said then.