Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez provided fans a scare Wednesday night, exiting a Spring Training game due to a cut under his left eye.

The Kansas City Royals already have plenty of confidence in their 2025 pitching staff, but a spring training breakout is more than welcome. Whether support comes in the starting rotation or bullpen, small-market teams like the Royals always need young pitchers to come up and produce throughout the regular season.

Here is how to watch or listen to the Royals’ Cactus League games this week: Monday: vs. Rangers, 2:05 p.m. (1660 AM KWOD) Wednesday: vs. Mariners, 7:05 p.m. (No TV or radio) Thursday: at Cubs, 7:05 p.m. (96.5 FM The Fan) Friday: vs. Angels, 2:05 p.m. (No TV or radio)

Training might not count, but it is when we get the year's first wave of Statcast data, and that deserves a closer look. Let's try to find some numbers worth paying attention to early on this spring,

Jac Caglianone, selected in the first-round of the MLB draft last year, hit a home run during the first week of spring training that would have made the Royals record books if it had been in a real game.

Anthony Simonelli, a top Royals draft pick in 2021, is hoping to parlay recent farm system dominance into a role at The K sometime in 2025.

Two of the Royals’ top prospects hit homers to take down the Chicago White Sox today in a come-from-behind victory.

The Kansas City Royals enter spring training in a situation they haven’t been in since 2016, fresh off a postseason appearance. Spring training provides

An 11-year-old Ben Kudrna was among the sold-out crowd on hand at Kauffman Stadium to witness Salvador Perez’s 12th-inning walkoff hit in that year’s American League Wild Card Game, securing a Kansas City victory over Oakland. Fast forward 11 years, and Kudrna is now pitching to Salvy at Spring Training in Surprise, Arizona.