Welcome once again to your Saturday baseball thread. Last week’s game was so bad that it inspired me to stay up late berating the Royals for their lack of accountability. Hopefully, this week’s game will be better.
If it is, it probably won’t yet be because of new hitting coach Alec Zumwalt, who hasn’t even had the job for a week yet. But it might be because the Royals have been forced to abandon playing their veterans. If you missed this week’s action, Salvador Perez went down with an injury which forced the Royals to start letting MJ Melendez get some starts, and then Michael A.