Royals prospect Ryan O’Hearn awoke in a major league team’s Chicago hotel for the first time in his life Tuesday morning and found lack of rest had done nothing to dampen his mood.
He’d found out two days earlier he was headed for this moment, for his major-league debut at Guaranteed Rate Field, where the Royals were scheduled to continue a three-series road trip Tuesday. He was too excited to care his sleep schedule had been messed up from the moment Class AAA Omaha manager Brian Poldberg called him into his office at Chukchansi Park in Fresno, Calif.