I know we don’t care about Cactus League standings, but it’s still pretty impressive that the Kansas City Royals have won 14 games this spring while only losing three—that’s a winning percentage of .824 (!), over a hundred points higher than the next-closest team (LAD) and blowing the leaders of the Grapefruit League (TOR, .624) out of the water.
Today’s game was an untelevised affair, which is too bad because a) it was an 8-6 Mariners win over the red-hot Royals; b) Logan Gilbert struck out six batters, a spring high for him, and apparently featured his splitter quite a bit; c) catcher Jacob Nottingham hit an inside-the-park home run, the peak of spring training silliness.