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Sore spots: The one position that most haunts all 30 MLB teams

Is there a sore spot on the team you root for that the club just never seems to fully heal?

Growing up, my team was the Kansas City Royals, and the position that always drove me mad was shortstop. I am just barely old enough to remember the latter days of the beloved Freddie Patek as the Royals' shortstop, but his best days were before I had reached the age of sports consciousness.

After that came U.L. Washington, and I actually have a picture on the wall of my office of me as a young lad standing on the fake turf at Royals Stadium with U.