This story was featured in Issue 2 of Royals Baseball Insider and is available for free to all fans who attend any game during the homestand from May 3–6, 2018.
The words reverberated throughout the room as Tim Hill tried to process his diagnosis.
“You have a tumor,” the doctor said. “We think it’s cancerous.”
Hill was in his first minor league camp with the Royals in 2015, nine months after they drafted him out of Bacone College in Muskogee, Okla. He showed promise as a 32nd-round pick, recording a 1.64 ERA (4 ER in 22.