A day after one of the Royals’ “core four” players from their 2015 World Series championship team left via free agency, another plans to return.
The Royals are bringing back shortstop Alcides Escobar, the MVP of the 2015 American League Championship Series — and if the short-term contract is finalized as expected, they plan to have Escobar continue to star at the position he’s held since 2011.
That would leave shortstop Raul Mondesi, long considered Escobar’s heir apparent on the left side of the infield, as the odd man out of a spot on the Royals’ 25-man roster.