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Inbox: Are Royals feeling Merri for 2017?

KANSAS CITY -- The end of 2016 is approaching, and Spring Training is less than two months away. So let's do one final Royals Inbox for the year.

Happy holidays everyone and here goes:

@FlannyMLB Why is there so little respect for Whit at second base? I thought he played well, showed promise.

Who is not respecting Whit Merrifield? General manager Dayton Moore and manager Ned Yost are very high on Merrifield and repeatedly have made it clear that he will compete for the everyday job at second base, along with Christian Colon and Raul Mondesi.