Royals general manager Dayton Moore doesn’t expect Bubba Starling to be the team’s opening day center fielder.
But he doesn’t want Starling thinking that way.
“He may expect that, and that’s good,” Moore said. “And if he wins it, he wins it.”
Center field is open with the departure of Lorenzo Cain, whose Royals career ended when he agreed to a deal with the Milwaukee Brewers. The Royals have candidates, and one of them is Starling, the team’s first-round pick in 2011 from Gardner Edgerton High who seeks his major-league debut.