There is, figuratively speaking, a baseball movie playing in Omaha, where the Kansas City Royals have their Triple-A farm club. Its story gets more interesting by the day — returned to the minors after failing for four seasons to prove he could consistently manage big league pitching, a once-promising slugger is a threat again at the plate. Suddenly hot, he shows more and more signs that he could — with the emphasis on could — be rediscovering the form with which he slugged 41 home runs in 2021.
The star is MJ Melendez, and his bat is hot .