Jostle your way past the mute guys with cameras on the Royals’ conditioning field for one of manager Ned Yost’s pre-workout news briefings. You’ve got questions regarding the roster and competition in camp for jobs.
This might surprise you.
The earliest spring opener in Royals history Friday provided no glimpse of the club’s rebuilt rotation.
It’s getting harder and harder to think of Royals right-hander Aaron Crow as anything but a reliever.
That no-nonsense toughness that Royals manager Ned Yost often exudes isn’t just eyewash. He returned to duty Wednesday after undergoing surgery Tuesday afternoon to remove an increasingly troublesome gall bladder.
Whatever it might seem, given the visceral reaction in some quarters, the Royals didn’t surrender every blue-chipper from the upper levels of their stocked farm system last December in their big deal with Tampa Bay.
Miguel Tejada, at 38, is 11 years removed from his American League 2002 Most Valuable Player award as he dons a Royals’ uniform for spring workouts.
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Eric Hosmer bought a home on the eastern edge of the Everglades in the offseason and then got to work on reversing the disappointing downward trend of his sophomore season.
Salvy Perez and James Shields huddled up between the plate and the mound Wednesday afternoon after their latest collaboration at one of the cloverleaf diamonds on the edge of the Royals’ complex.
We’re about to see, over the next several weeks, the results of Luke Hochevar’s winter recovery plan. That’s we as in the Royals, their fans and everybody else … most especially Hochevar himself.
So why is veteran left-hander Bruce Chen still pursuing the chance to pitch for China in the World Baseball Classic — he hasn’t yet been certified — when he faces a stiff challenge this spring to hold a job in the Royals’ rotation?
The scene is indelible, iconic and forever unchanging. Wonderfully so. The images of ballplayers limbering up this week as spring training opens here in the Greater Phoenix area and throughout Florida herald the coming change of seasons.
Camp hasn’t even started, officially, and already the Royals’ low-risk gamble of signing former All-Star reliever George Sherrill shows signs of paying off.
When you’ve seen Steven Tyler at his worst, how bad could it be to face a professional hitter?
Josh Robertson planned to video chat with Brian Rose Thursday morning as Mr. Rose lay in a Texas hospital fighting melanoma.
Not everything went wrong for Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer in 2012.
Two-year-old Max Gordon had finally been coaxed to sleep earlier this month and his daddy, Alex, was starting to drift off himself.
It doesn’t matter if Royals pitching coach Dave Eiland gets an ugly tie or a blue bowling ball today for Christmas, he’s a happy guy.
Ryan Freel, a former Major League Baseball player known for his fearless play but whose career was cut short after eight seasons by a series of head and other injuries, was found dead Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla., according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
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