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While Cal Eldred coaches the KC Royals’ pitchers, his son works to follow him to the majors.
C.J. Eldred isn’t that much different than the other minor league players who, deprived by a pandemic of plying their trade last summer, stayed sharp by working out indoors together at Dugout Sports in Fairfax, Iowa. One thing, however, set Eldred, a righthanded reliever in the KC Royals’ farm system, apart from his colleagues.
C.J. is a legacy, the son of former big league pitcher and current Kansas City pitching coach Cal Eldred.