The Yost family farm in Georgia has been rather busy this offseason, so frequented by visitors that Ned Yost told his wife he isn’t sure they’ve had the house to themselves back-to-back days. Kids. Grandkids. Friends. It’s made for one of Yost’s most enjoyable winters, he says, and that’s undoubtedly relative to the previous one, when he was immobilized for weeks after a fall from a tree stand built for hunting.
So as he walked into the winter meetings in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the evident contentment derived partially from that. But also from this: his baseball future.