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Two KC Royals, Salvador Perez and Whit Merrifield, played in the All-Star Game Tuesday night. Perez put on a show of power in the Home Run Derby the evening before.
But if those baseball moments didn’t give Kansas City fans at least a brief respite from this dismal season, the Royals’ efforts to land talent in the 2021 amateur draft probably did. From Sunday evening until mid-afternoon Tuesday, the club dished up three days of major and minor surprises.
The Royals rattled the baseball world with a shocking first round pick Sunday, continued surprising Monday with the type of players they selected, then reversed field Tuesday.