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KC Royals News: Opening Day almost here and bullpen questions

By Leigh Oleszczak

KANSAS CITY, MO - APRIL 10: Opening day base during the Kansas City home opening game between the Oakland Athletics and the Kansas City Royals on April 10, 2017 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. Athletics defeated the Royals 2-0 (Photo by William Purnell/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, MO - APRIL 10: Opening day base during the Kansas City home opening game between the Oakland Athletics and the Kansas City Royals on April 10, 2017 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. Athletics defeated the Royals 2-0 (Photo by William Purnell/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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KC Royals news mostly surrounds how Opening Day is one day away. Fans have questions about the bullpen too.

The offseason and spring training have officially come and gone, so naturally the next step for the Kansas City Royals is Opening Day. The Royals get to host a true Opening Day this year, which will be Thursday at Kauffman Stadium at 3:00 CST.

We’re all excited for baseball to get underway, but one of the lingering questions has to be about what the bullpen will look like. Will the bullpen be as inconsistent as it was last year? The answer is more than likely, yes, as the pen will feature mostly new faces. Well, at least new faces to the Royals.

The bullpen used to be an area of strength for the KC Royals, but after the H-D-H Trio was no more, the fate of the bullpen took a turn. It wasn’t awful in 2016, but 2017 the pen took a pretty big step back.

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    • It’ll be interesting to see how Ned Yost manages these relievers and what roles we’ll see them in. Will Kelvin Herrera hold onto the closer’s role for awhile? Who will be that surprise “reliable” arm out of the bullpen?

    Here’s what’s trending in Kansas City Royals news from throughout FanSided.

    2018 bullpen full of new faces [KC Kingdom]

    "As of now, the Kansas City Royals bullpen is full of new faces, but that might not end up being a bad thing."

    Kansas City Royals 2018 Season Preview [David Hill, Call to the Pen]

    "There is a bit more optimism around the Royals chances this season than there had been even a month ago, as it would appear as though there may be a chance at another playoff run."

    The Royals Have a Logjam at First Base [Tyler Dierking, Kings of Kauffman]

    More from KC Kingdom

    "As of right now, no player is definitely better than the next. Some have more MLB experience, but with the minor league guys, we still do not know how they will do against big league pitching."

    Here are some other pieces of Kansas City Royals news from around the rest of the web.

    The Royals bullpen looks like it is about set [Max Rieper, Royals Review]

    Royals season-opening homestead full of fun, family events [KMBC]

    I’m excited to attend Opening Day this year and hope that it’ll be as fun as some of the seasons past. While there isn’t a lot of optimism surrounding the 2018 season, Opening Day has always been a time when fans pack the K, as it signifies the start of the new baseball season.

    The Kansas City Royals will be playing meaningful baseball beginning on Thursday and that’s pretty darn exciting, isn’t it? Now if only the weather around here would stop being so gross, then it’d truly feel like baseball season!

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