SURPRISE, Ariz.
Yordano Ventura is well-positioned for improvement with the World Series-champion Royals, and if you are into such things, the reasons to believe hit you before he throws a pitch.
The first is how he looks, and this is not about another ballplayer being in the best shape of his life but instead a precocious talent who has shown the ambition and commitment to put himself in the best position to improve.
“My body was feeling tired and I needed to change that,” he says. “All muscle. No grass.”
Grass? you ask.