AMERICAN LEAGUE CENTRAL CAPSULES

Hosmer

■ The season is a success if: the Yordano Ventura tragedy doesn’t completely overwhelm them. When Ventura died in a car crash in his native Dominican Republic in January, the sport lost a huge personality and a blossoming star, but the Royals lost a teammate and a building block. That is irreplaceable. From a manpower standpoint, the Royals will be counting on Hammel, who pitched well for the Cubs last year, but never got a sniff of action in the playoffs, to carry some of that

ROSS D. FRANKLIN/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Cleveland Indians added slugger Edwin Encarnacion this winter to bolster a lineup with no holes. Encarnacion hit 42 homers and drove in 127 runs last year for the Toronto Blue Jays.