Jeffrey Flanagan has the annual “the truck is off to Spring Training” story!
Royals general manager Dayton Moore is so looking forward to the 2020 season, he said at last weekend’s FanFest, that he would be leaving for Spring Training two weeks earlier than he ever has. “We have a lot of players there already,” Moore said, “and I want to be there.” That means Moore will beat the Royals’ Spring Training trucks, which were loaded outside Kauffman Stadium on Thursday morning.
Pitching in the Royals farm system is in the best shape of its life (sub required):
NEW — A couple weeks ago, a 70-year-old pitching coach within the Kansas City Royals' system said of the current crop of pitching prospects: "The best accumulation of pitching talent that I’ve ever been around.