Kansas City Royals whiffed on most recent trade deadline

The Kansas City Royals front office must face reality with the squad’s shortcomings or they will soon find themselves unemployed.

Remember recently when the Kansas City Royals were going to contend and compete, and the shorter season was going to allow this team to really make a sprint for an expanded playoff spot?

Well, here we sit.

Adelberto Mondesi is who everyone outside of the organization thought he was and the win-loss record is what everyone outside the organization thought it was: Bad.

Let’s do it this way – Remember 2004 to 2006 when those teams were atrocious and an embarrassment and lost all those games?

Well, let me drop some scary knowledge on you. This assortment of players on the Royals is just as bad. Based on money spent, one could argue this collection is worse than the band of misfits from the previous run.

From 2004 to 2006, the Royals won 176 games over the span of 486 games played, giving them a winning percentage of 36.2%. For the Royals, the previous completed seasons and the trek of this season, the Royals have won 131 games of 359 total games played. That is a winning percentage of 36.4%.

No matter how you slice it or look at it, the Royals are a bad baseball team, which leads us to the next question and the issue that revolves.

There is A LOT to unpack in this comment, and very little of it makes sense, but the main part is simply this – At no point should the Royals ever tell teams a player isn’t available. Never ever should that ever be the case.

That doesn’t mean you actively shop the player, but a good general manager will listen to offers about anyone at any time. This is a public example of an organization simply unable or unwilling to see the reality playing out in front of them.

The Royals are awful this year and likely are not all that good next year. Unless you can tell me what changes. Let’s take a look at the players the Royals should have traded and why it was a mistake that they didn’t.