The moves reduce the Royals' camp roster to 43.
Clint Robinson, stuck behind Eric Hosmer and Billy Butler in the first base-designated hitter ranks, batted .318 (7-for-22) in the Cactus League, with one double and two RBIs.
Derrick Robinson hit .364 (4-for-11) with three RBIs, and Lough's average was .316 (6-for-19), with two triples and one RBI. now on to pitching
Royals reliever Blake Wood will be out 10 days to two weeks with a sore right elbow, the team reported on Sunday during their 6-4 win over the Indians in Cactus League action at Surprise Stadium.
Wood arrived at the clubhouse on Sunday wearing a sleeve on the elbow, and he will be temporarily shut down after making four appearances and tossing 3 1/3 innings. He's 1-2 with an 8.10 ERA.
"I tried to recover a little bit, but it just got progressively worse," Wood said about the Saturday night outing. "It started to worry me because I didn't want to do something real bad. I just couldn't get through anything because it was hurting. It's hard to command the ball when you're going through something like that."
Wood said this is all new territory for him.
"I've had stuff before, but I've never been taken out of a game before," he said. All this according to Royals.com
Also Two pitches before the end of his brief relief outing in the fifth inning on Sunday against the Indians, Royals closer Joakim Soria felt a tug in his throwing elbow. A pitch later that tug became more painful and Soria called manager Ned Yost to the mound. A moment later Soria was walking across left field to the clubhouse accompanied by a trainer.
Like Blake Wood, Soria has been diagnosed with a sore right elbow. Unlike Wood, who is out for at least the next 10 to 14 days, the jury is still out on Soria, who will be re-evaluated early this week.
Losing a setup man is one thing, but having your closer get hurt with a little more than two weeks to go in Spring Training has to be a major concern.
"Yeah, it's a concern, there's no doubt," said Yost, whose club held on for a 6-4 win at Surprise Stadium after building a 6-0 lead against Tribe starter Josh Tomlin. "But again, we can't get crazy concerned until the doctors evaluate it and see where we're at."
Well Let`s see, We are Just half way through Spring training, and two of our relief pitchers are down due to a poor training staff, our Catcher is out half the season do to poor training, cause you don't just tear a ligament by mistake, its due to poor pre game warm ups, and finally our coach can't do anything to help our team cause we are still farming. Hosmer and Hocheaver looked good so far, and a little more good news Quintero is now on the Royals radar to replace perez. so we will once again see how this turns out.
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