Again, he doesn’t leave batters dumbfounded with blistering stuff, but he’s found a way to close out games that works for him. And as long as the saves keep coming, the Royals likely won’t care how he’s going about getting them.
With Kansas City also seeing the likes of several trusted arms hit the IL at some point his season, like Erceg, Hunter Harvey, Steven Cruz and Daniel Lynch IV, one thing has remained constant, and that is Estévez’s stabilizing presence in the back.