Life in Class AAA baseball can be cruel.
The promotion a player has dreamed of since watching his first big-league game as kid literally could come any day. Or, it could never come at all.
In early June, Ryan O’Hearn what his future held while in the clubhouse of the Omaha Storm Chasers.
The previous winter, O’Hearn was disappointed the Royals had not added him to the 40-man roster. The, after a good showing at spring training (five home runs, 1.000 slugging percentage), O’Hearn slumped in his second season at Omaha and his average dipped below .