KC Royals baseball, something seen only in television reruns for over three months, returns to Kauffman Stadium Friday when the club reopens spring training. This long-awaited resumption of the game’s annual rite of preparation–now almost universally referred to as Spring Training 2.0–marks the beginning of three weeks of searching for answers to the abundance of personnel questions left unresolved when COVID-19 shut down camps in mid-March.
Those unanswered questions, and more raised by the historic and unfortunate pandemic-forced baseball hiatus, must be addressed by new Kansas City manager Mike Matheny, his coaching staff and general manager Dayton Moore and other key members of the club’s front office before the club’s late July Opening Day.