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2010's Managerial Exodus Will Give Dugouts Different Look Next Spring

All this week, the FanHouse staff will look back at the most significant baseball storylines of 2010. When the 2010 baseball season started, four of the top 14 managers all-time in terms of win total were at the helm of big league teams. When 2011 starts, only one of those four, St. Louis' Tony La Russa, will still be...

USA Baseball Presents Special Opportunity for Ned Yost, Royals

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Ned Yost figures he can rest later. Yost, manager of the Kansas City Royals, recently made an appearance here at the Pan Am Qualifying Tournament to watch and offer support to the organization's record six players on Team USA. Yost, appointed in mid-May and extended for two years through 2012,...

Bobby Cox as Others See Him

This is the final regular-season weekend for Bobby Cox, one of the most successful managers in major-league history. The Braves' manager since 1990, Cox is fourth all-time with 2,503 wins, tied for first all-time with six 100-win seasons and third all-time at 504 games over .500. Cox, 69, managed the Braves from 1978 to...

Royals Extend Manager Ned Yost's Contract Through 2012

The Royals obviously are pleased with the job Ned Yost has done since taking over as their interim manager, but they chose to announce that the interim tag had been removed on perhaps the busiest day of the baseball calendar. Lost in the shuffle of a flurry of last-minute trades Saturday -- including one that saw Kansas...

Zack Greinke Regaining That '09 Feeling

SEATTLE -- Zack Greinke did a bit of time traveling Tuesday night. He made like 2010 was 2009. The Kansas City ace dominated Seattle, limiting the Mariners to two hits through seven innings and one unearned run, that coming on a squeeze bunt. Even so, 2010 has been nothing like 2009 for Greinke, who is 5-8 now after a...

Ned Yost News From the Web

05/30/12 George Brett finds lost dog through Twitter Source: The Wichita Eagle - Wichita KS Royals icon George Brett turned to Twitter on Tuesday night after his dog, Charlie, went missing from the familys home in Mission Hills.
05/30/12 Fischer to serve as Royals' bullpen coach Source: MLB - Kansas City Royals Bill Fischer, in his 65th year of professional baseball, will spend two days of it in the Royals' bullpen.
05/29/12 Yost: Royals have many All-Star candidates Source: MLB - Kansas City Royals The 2012 All-Star Game in Kansas City is a little more than a month away, on July 10, so the questions are coming to manager Ned Yost about the Royals' possible picks.
05/29/12 Yost ready to use Broxton more frequently Source: MLB - Kansas City Royals Jonathan Broxton, thrust into the closer's role when Joakim Soria underwent elbow surgery, was coming back from more minor elbow surgery of his own and the Royals were taking it slow with him.
05/22/12 Royals put 2B Getz on 15-day DL, call up LHP Smith Source: The Garden Island - Lihu'e HI The Kansas City Royals have placed second baseman Chris Getz on the 15-day disabled list with a ribcage injury and called up left-hander Will Smith from Triple-A Omaha.

Background on Ned Yost

Edgar Frederick "Ned" Yost III (; born August 19, 1955, in Eureka, California) is a former Major League Baseball catcher and current manager of the Kansas City Royals.

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