The Kansas City Royals have improved every year since Ned Yost took over the team as manager 35 games into the 2010 season.
That simple, irrefutable fact is sure to make the anti-Yost crowd grit their teeth to keep from saying some things that shouldn’t be said in front of children.
This is a manager who inspired a new word — “Yosted” — to describe the head-scratching that ensued after some of his strategic moves.
Yost guided the Royals to the World Series last season, according to his detractors, the way Jonas Grumby, aka “The Skipper,” guided the USS Minnow.