Weekend Rumblings - News for October 12, 2019
In his Friday notes, David Lesky writes about a dark horse to make next year’s team.
But one name I keep hearing as a real possibility is Daniel Tillo. He’s actually on the Team USA Olympic qualifying roster, which is pretty cool for him, but before he made that roster, he made a shift to the bullpen in Northwest Arkansas. His velocity increased, he used his four-seam fastball more and was able to get more strikeouts. He hasn’t been great in the Arizona Fall League, but the Royals are happy with his progress He threw just eight innings in relief, but didn’t walk a single batter and struck out 11.