Patrick Mahomes may have been a Detroit Tigers draft pick, but it sounds like he could make a spring training appearance with the Royals in the future.
Mahomes was a legit baseball prospect taken by Detroit in the 37th round in 2014, three years before the Chiefs took him in the first round in 2017.
The Tigers jokingly congratulated their draft pick after he won his first Super Bowl in 2020.
Of course, he’s gone on to become a 3-time Super Bowl champion and is already considered one of the greatest QBs in NFL history. But he also became a minority owner of the Royals in 2020 and has talked about making an appearance at the team’s spring training.
It sounds like it could happen soon after Royals general manager J.J. Picollo told the Kansas City Star the QB has an open invite.
“We’d love to have him come. He’s welcome anytime,” Picollo told The Kansas City Star. “He’s part owner of the team, he can do whatever he wants.”
“It would be great. It’d be fun to have him around. I know that a couple of our guys have relationships with him. But if you wanted to come down, we’d love to have him come down. Problem is, when we’re in spring training, he’s out celebrating Super Bowls. The timing doesn’t always match up. It would be neat, though. It would be neat to have him. We would love that.”
Mahomes briefly played baseball while in college at Texas Tech. His father, Pat, was a pitcher over the course of 11 seasons with the Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates, finishing his career with a 5.47 ERA.
Mahomes showed off his skills on the diamond when he hit a massive home run at a Royals’ celebrity softball game a few years ago.
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