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Royals mailbag: Bobby Witt Jr, pitching patience, and the weakness of the Central Division

When you run a sports blog during a transaction freeze, you have pretty limited options.

  1. Remember the old times? (thanks Bradford Lee!)
  2. Let’s breakdown this Korean baseball drama episode-by-episode (thanks Hokius!)
  3. Sporcle Quizzes! (thanks me!)
  4. Mailbag time!

I asked Twitter to come up with their baseball-related questions, and they delivered the content today. So let’s dive into today’s questions!

Seemingly this will depend on the new Collective Bargaining Agreement and whether or not they reform service time. Under the old rules, the Royals could, in theory, keep Witt in Omaha for the first two weeks of the season, call him in mid-April, and push back his free agency by a full year.