If ever there were a moment in which health was highlighted as impermanent, it was this afternoon when Whit Merrifield fouled a ball off his knee, going to the ground before being tended to by Royals trainer Nick Kenney and hobbling off the field.
Whit Merrifield is arguably the best player on this iteration of the Royals. To piggyback off of one of Hokius’s comments over the weekend, there is some question as to whether a team this bad is allowed to have a best player. For the sake of discussion, let us assume the 2018 Royals can in fact have a best player.