Jac Caglianone Shines: MLB Highlights and Royals Update

Boy, the bust-out season for Jack Caglione. It took a while, Tom, like a real long time. You know, everyone wanted him to come up last year and just scorch. It didn't happen. It didn't happen at the beginning of the season, but you could say from about May on, Caglione has delivered what we thought he would when he got drafted. Unfortunately, his buddy Vinnie P. did not have the same season that they thought he would, and so that's part of it. Witt's injury is part of it. The Royals' disastrous bullpen has been part of it, but a shining light for Jack Caglione. I'm going to guess going into next season, next season, I think Jack Caglione is going to be a very interesting player to watch in terms of his home run totals, his average totals. Sometimes it just takes a while. Young player, finally clicking. Yeah, that's all it is. It's not going to happen over 50 play appearances or 100 play appearances. It's going to take a couple hundred play appearances for him to finally get settled, finally get acclimated at the MLB level. I wanted to believe in the Royals this year. I really did with Michael Garcia and Bobby Witt and Caglione and Vinnie P. and Sal Perez. I wanted to believe that their offense was going to be great, especially with them moving the fences in. I was like, okay, we're going to see some real run production out of the Royals. The pitching was always going to be an issue. I was like, okay, the Royals are going to be in a spot to truly compete for the wild card, given the dynamic of the AL Central and the other teams around them. And Caglione stepping up and leading the team was not something I expected, given the fact that they had a bunch of other injuries. But if they can be healthy, the Royals can be a super fun lineup next year. That's just what it comes down to. Stay healthy and you got power, you got speed, you got average. They're going to check all the boxes that you want.