About eight months ago, the Kansas City Royals unveiled a revision to their front office structure that was essentially greeted with a shrug of the shoulders. After all, what really changes with a new general manager if the former one is still on staff, receiving a promotion of his own? Well, something does change, as it turns out. And we just saw the first significant piece of evidence of it. The Royals fired hitting coach Terry Bradshaw on Monday morning, replacing him internally with Alec Zumwalt, who has been in charge of the team’s player development and hitting performance for three seas…
