Not quite every category. No ROY candidates for KC, but agreed, it is awesome that we have a candidate in three of the biggest offseason awards categories. And with Bobby’s emergence, I expect him to compete for the MVP award many more times going forward.

Bobby Witt Jr is the AL's Silver Slugger winner for SS!!!

Excellent! :clap:

Royals Spring training in Surprise starts back up Feb 21...be there!
really missing Royals games right now

And Salvador Perez joins Bobby! Picked up his 5th Silver Slugger award for catcher! Great news!!!

Wow Salvy nice! :clap:

Congrats, Sal 😊

That's awesome! Also, am I reading that correctly? We get a draft pick due to BWJ being a bad ass?

That is correct sir. And from the way I read it, the Royals will get a pick sometime after the first round, but before the second round.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="ro" dir="ltr">Salvador Perez’s 5 Silver Sluggers are tied for 5th-most at catcher, behind only: Mike Piazza (10), Iván Rodríguez (7), Brian McCann (6), Lance Parrish (6)</p>&mdash; Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/SlangsOnSports/status/1856486985961017489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Perez winning the Silver Slugger is kind of a big deal because he wasn't a slam dunk to win like Witt Jr. was at SS.

Cal Raleigh, of the Mariners, had a strong case, too. Personally, I think Raleigh was dinged for his .220 batting average. As much as batting average has been deemphasized by stat heads, I don't think a guy batting that low is appealing when it comes to an award that recognizes the best hitter.

OK. Looking through options, thinking about where KC, here’s my current high-level plan points: Hitters.

1) Sign Jurickson Profar to play LF and either leadoff or hit 2.

Profar has really settled into the post-hype portion of his career. Switch hitter, solid defender in LF, can still run a bit, good all-around hitter who gets on base.

2) part two of this would be to acquire one more bat. I like the fit with Luis Rengifo of the Angels and would be willing to see them ship out one of Bubic or Marsh and pair them with another piece like Melendez or Carter Jensen.

Royals have been chasing Profar it seems like for a decade now

There's a bunch of smoke about them pursuing Bohm as apparently Philly wants to move on.

Smoke? Have you seen any reports? Just curious. Everything i've seen is wishful thinking.

It would be quite the haul to get him, methinks.