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yankees500
The royals need to rebuild. Their farm system had a couple interesting pieces but not enough to build a future winning team. I dont see them tearing it down though. They just don’t have the guts.
Solaris611
Time for KC brass to swallow hard and trade at least 2 of Cain/Hosmer/Moustakas. Trade all 3 wisely, and the return should be enough for retooling. The bigger problem are the underperformers with the heavy contracts. They’ll be stuck with those bums for the duration.
cubsker15
They should be trading Cain, like today, but they won’t.
EndinStealth
The closer to the deadline the more they can get for him. it would be dumb to move him now.
antonio bananas
until a suitor finds an option. logically, 3 1/2 months of lorenzo should net more than 2 months.
Josh Boman
Kansas City has no farm system, the team now can’t make it to the playoffs, I’m a diehard royals fan, I would hate to see all of the guys go but I don’t want them to be out of the playoffs for 29 more years, they need to get rid of Cain, Hosmer, Moustakas, Escobar, Minor, and Herrera they would get a lot more than you guys would think for them, if they don’t trade one of the top 3 I named then they need to try and sign them long term. Dayton needs to open up his eyes and make some moves so they can forget about these past 2 years and look towards a 2019-2020 postseason return. It’s the best thing the boys in blue can do.
jwarden15
I’m a royals fan as well but some of their prospects I believe can do well in the big leagues. Bonifacio who has debuted is impressing fans. He won’t be some huge name star but he can play well for the team and at least has offensive capabilities and can score. If they trade Hosmer, they can try O’hearn at 1st base. Merrifield is also doing great in the majors.
antonio bananas
signing them long term does no good. people need to understand that when you resign guys, you are paying 2-5x as much for their decline years. why?
Priggs89
Herrera has had homer issues all year, not just the last 10 innings. As much as they’d (most likely) like to move him this deadline, I don’t see anyone offering up much in return. I’m sure teams would be interested in buying low, but I dont think KC will move him while his value is this low.
greatgame 2
Wood is done
Lego4365
Vargas to the Red Sox for someone like Luis Ysla or Kyle Martin?
kylewait89
No. That dude has a flyball rate that would get killed at Fenway. He also has a fairly high BABIP for a guy with a low ERA suggesting his defense is helping him out quite a bit. Not trying to see Vargas in a Sawx uniform.
GarryHarris
The Royals are the single largest reason that the Tigers will not be able to trade off their players. The Yankees need a 1B and the Royals have two, the Red Sox a 3B, Lorenzo Cain can be used at all three OF spots. The SPs and RPs are better options as rentals. Kelvin Herrera is one of the best RPs in MLB.
KCMOWHOA
People here in KC are fooling themselves into thinking the team is still competitive after beating up on the Padres and some bad pitching. But Dayton needs to trade Cain and Vargas sooner rather than later. I doubt he has the stones to trade Moose or Hosmer, and he probably still thinks he’s re-signing one of them so I think they’ll finish the season in KC. Hopefully he gets one of them to come back without breaking the bank and then gets the compensatory pick for the other. If Herrara can get it together over the next month I would say package him and Cain to the Nationals. No reason you couldn’t try to bring Cain back in the offseason even if he’s traded.
Kansas_City
Pessimism her now seems unwarranted. Royals are not going to blow things up if they have even 10% chance at playoffs.