When Matt Quatraro was hired there was a lot of speculation about what things he would bring over from the “Rays Way”. One of the things I heard multiple times from multiple sources is that they use their whole roster. There are several ways you can do that, but one of the most obvious is platooning, and the Rays do that quite a bit. MJ Melendez is basically a platoon bat at this point, which seems to be working of late.
On August 2 the Royals faced Tarik Skubal, a lefty who is vying for a Cy Young award.