Kansas City Royals: Biggest Offseason Questions

The Royals offseason is officially underway. What are the biggest questions facing JJ Picollo and the Royals? What moves do they need to make and what moves do we expect to see? @JakeMilham of the Royals Rundown Podcast, Arrowhead Addict, and Inside the Royals joins us to answer all these questions and more!

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  1. Pretty good overview of the first part of the offseason guys but I think you heavily overlooked one thing. The Free Agent Market for Bats is incredibly thin whereas the SP FA Market is flush as all hell. Here are some of the names who will be FA’s:

    Burnes
    Snell
    Kikuchi
    Wacha (he Declines, they place QO, he signs 3/63 somewhere else is how I see it going)
    Fried
    Eovaldi
    Flaherty
    Martinez
    Montgomery (I think he accepts his 25 mil PO and then Ari cuts him since no one will trade for him because the Owner publicly stated he didn’t want him back tanking anybleftover value he might have had)
    Verlander
    Pivetta
    Manaea
    Bieber
    Scherzer
    Lorenzen
    Boyd (who was very successful after he got to Cleveland)
    Severino
    Montas
    Turnbull
    Buehler

    That’s 20 intriguing names not including the trade market. I don’t think it’s all that out of left field that the Royals could let Wacha go, Trade Brady Singer for an OF (maybe Nootbar like Chris said?), AND sign Buehler and Montgomery to 1 year prove it deals. Kaufman is a BIG park and the Royals have just come off a Playoff run. I imagine people would feel much less worried if the Rotation Options were Ragans, Lugo, Bubic, Buehler, Montgomery, Marsh, Wright, and Noah Cameron. Plus even with a trade for an OF I’d really like for the Royals to at least try for Tyler O’Neill…

    Edit- I don’t know who else would bring it up but it has to be said I’d be all for bringing in Trevor Bauer btw. The man proved in court that he did no wrong and MLB has clearly used Collusion of some form to keep him out. That’s wrong and it needed to be said…

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