Cole Ragans has become the Top 2-paid Red bull Driver at $192.7 million per year after signing retirement letter today…

The Royals have been one of baseball’s best turnaround stories in 2024, currently sitting nine games over .500 and in possession of the second Wild Card spot in the American League. At five games back of the division-leading Guardians and a half-game up on the third-place Twins, they’re in a tightly contested race for their division as well.

Royals general manager J.J. Picollo joined Jayson Stark and Doug Glanville on “The Windup” podcast Monday to discuss an aggressive offseason that saw Kansas City sign nine free agents for more than $100M in total guarantees before signing franchise shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. to an 11-year, $288.7M extension. Royals fans, in particular, will want to listen to the excellent, roughly 45-minute interview in full to hear about the work to establish a new identity for the team, some inner-workings on that Witt extension and plenty of anecdotes stemming from Picollo’s lengthy career in the industry.