A Ned Yost story.
This is Oct. 27 of last year, and he is about to manage the latest in a monthlong string of most important games of his life. The Royals are in the World Series, something nobody could’ve imagined even a month ago. He is in the World Series, something nobody could’ve imagined, well, ever, all the way back to when he was a career backup catcher who got his first hit five months after his first big-league game.
Yost has been telling people that he is the same as he ever was, but anyone who’s spent time around him knows that’s not exactly true, especially in front of cameras.