I wanted to wish everyone in the Royals Review community a Happy Thanksgiving. If you’re like me, you think about baseball while watching football and those tiresome, ever-present Chucky commercials. By now, we get the idea. Chucky is back. No need to remind us every five minutes.
One of the anticipated events of each spring for baseball fans is the arrival of a new year’s crop of rookies. Prior to the advent of free agency, the only new blood for a team would be from the occasional trade and the arrival of new rookies. Baseball history is littered with rookies who came in and set the world on fire.