Podcast: Any similarities between these Royals and breakthrough 2013 team? Ask Ned Yost
The Royals’ spring training opener is Friday and maybe this team can soon approach the success of the one that started its run a decade ago.
The 2013 Royals paved the way for the success that followed with pennants in 2014 and 2015. On today’s SportsBeat KC, the manager of those teams remembers how it all happened.
Ned Yost is headed to the Royals Hall of Fame, the club recently announced, and he spent time recalling his 10-year tenure with the club with reporters. You’ll hear his entire interview on today’s show. Yost covered it all, from how he oversaw the building of a team that captured a World Series to why the Royals couldn’t achieve the success in the following years.
Yost said patience was the key in the early years — and it is today with the likes of Bobby Witt Jr., MJ Melendez, Brady Singer and VInnie Pasquantino. Can they become the current version of Eric Hosmer, Lorenzo Cain, Mike Moustakas and Wade Davis?
Yost believes the team is headed in the right direction.
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Ned Yost enters Royals Hall of Fame as epitome of their rise from futility to glory