The plan to use Kratz as a personal catcher for one member of the Royals' rotation has been scrapped, the Kansas City Star's Andy McCullough reports. When asked how the team planned to find rest for Salvador Perez, manager Ned Yost said, "We'll figure it out." Kratz remains the team's backup catcher, but if Yost stubbornly continues to give Perez an unsustainable workload behind the plate it will make it very difficult to extract enough value out of Kratz for him to be useful in any but the deepest of leagues.