Ned Yost compares present Royals to past champions – MLB.com

September 3rd, 2023This story was excerpted from Anne Rogers’ Royals Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.KANSAS CITY – With so many former Royals in town to celebrate Ned Yost’s induction into the Royals Hall of Fame this weekend, it’s hard not to compare the teams Yost and the Royals’ front office built for the 2014-15 playoff runs to the Royals of today.Yost’s core went through similar struggles the 2023 Royals are going through now, a young roster full of potential and learning on the job – the hard way – in the Major Leagues.“I can see similarities between what we went through early,” Yost said Saturday. “The toughest thing for a small-market team to do is get competitive. You have to draft well, you have to develop well and then you have to have patience when they get to the big leagues.”The Royals are working to improve on the first two, but the latter is being tested more than ever this year. In manager Matt Quatraro’s first season, Kansas City is the second-worst team in baseball at 42-95 entering Sunday’s series finale against the Red Sox. When Quatraro
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