On September 24, 2015, Jarrod Dyson patrolled the dugout ceiling. The Kansas City Royals had just clinched their first American League Central pennant since 30 years prior during their 1985 World Series run. The 2015 Royals won the World Series, too, in no small part because of Dyson.
That evening, Dyson pumped up the crowd. He gave high fives to the outstretched palms of ecstatic fans eager to support a Kansas City baseball team that was finally a respectable club.
Dyson wasn’t the only Royal celebrating with the fans. And Dyson was never a core cog of the New Golden Age Royals like Eric Hosmer or Mike Moustakas, even if some statistics suggested he was just as good (if not better).