Everybody remembers the playing style of the World Series Royals teams from a decade ago. They terrorized the basepaths, played the best defense in the whole league, and their bullpen rendered the last third of the game a formality. They were relentless, and if the other team blinked, those Royals squads took advantage.
But there was another aspect to those Royals teams that I don’t know if people remember as much—they were feisty as hell! Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas were loud and brash. Lorenzo Cain and Jarrod Dyson exuded swagger. And Yordano Ventura was the dictionary definition of “fiery.