Late Sunday night, Royals manager Ned Yost will board a plane destined for his farm in Georgia. A group of Royals players will return to Kansas City, while many others will head their separate ways.
For four days, they will savor a reprieve from a full-on rebuild comprised of more frustration than triumph, more questions than answers.
After Sunday — and the three-plus months that preceded it — the break couldn’t come soon enough.
The Royals completed the worst first half of a season in franchise history in a fitting manner, the wrong end of a 10-1 blowout Sunday against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.