A quick retrospective of Yost’s years at the helm of the Kansas City Royals is truly like the opening line from Charles Dickens’ novel “A Tale of Two Cities”. That story opens by stating, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. A young team when Yost took over won around 44 percent of their games in his first three seasons followed by the first winning record in several years by the squad.
Then there were back-to-back trips to the World Series in ’14 and ’15, the latter of those bringing back the title to Kansas City for the first time in 30 years.