The Major League Baseball active roster is only 26 players, and it used to be only 25 players. However, the regular season is long and grueling. Most baseball teams use somewhere in the realm of 40-50 different players over the course of 162 games. That’s a lot of guys, and not all of them are big contributors. As a result, in every team, there are always a few guys who come and go without much fanfare and who are quickly forgotten about.
This is especially true for the Royals, who have only had four winning seasons in the last quarter century.