There was some good news in Royals camp Sunday regarding catcher Salvador Perez.
One day after Perez left Team Venezuela’s game in the World Baseball Classic because of a left knee injury, manager Ned Yost said he didn’t believe there was any structural damage to the knee.
In a news release Saturday night, Team Venezuela said Perez had an MRI done in Mexico, where the game was played, and the results showed only inflammation in the knee.
“He’s going to be OK, we think,” Yost said. “He’ll be all right. They checked him out yesterday, Pedro (Grifol, the Royals catching coach) was on the phone most of the night, and so was Nick (Kenney, the Royals’ head trainer), talking to the (Venezuela) GM, talking to the trainers, and talking to Salvy himself.