SURPRISE, Ariz. -- There will be attempts to imitate the 2015 Kansas City Royals. When you win the World Series, imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery.
You've seen some of it already -- some teams taking what looked like the counterintuitive route, trying to build a team from the back of the bullpen. With the Royals returning the strikeout to stigma status for hitters, you may even see more hitters taking the shortened two-strike approach that once was common.
But no less an authority than Royals manager Ned Yost says that you won't see any perfect duplication of the Royals.