At this point, anyone that doesn’t see what Shermanator is doing is just being willfully obtuse

Middle relief lost the Royals a ton of games last year. Taylor was healthy he gave the Red Sox about 1.0 per year in WAR. That is pretty solid for a relief pitcher.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now, if you&#39;re the *Rangers* and you&#39;re on the edge of contending and you have Seager and Semien and your bullpen is OK and you have Mondesi, yeah, trade him for Taylor.<br><br>But Taylor will basically help the Royals hold leads they mostly won&#39;t have.</p>&mdash; Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/1617947657267208192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I’d bet my left nut (or DJ’s left nut) that Shermanator has ordered Picolo to shop Salvy. For the final salary dump left.

The two things about this is 1) they pretty clearly think their new pitching regime can fix guys up and 2) if this trade blows up in our face it's going to really blow up and look horrible. Mondesi has the tools to be a superstar. We're about to find out if he's truly glass or if there's something a training staff can do to reduce his injury risk.

Sorry, I like being optimistic about what the Royals are trying to do, but this makes absolutely no sense to me.

Salvy (-37) and Dozier (-17) have negative 54m in value. Vinnie and Singer each have about that in surplus value. Don’t be surprised if skinflint staples one of them to the epic salary dump. A 3 player deal where nothing comes back ROFL

Maybe we can get another middle reliever. To pacify the thread’s Royals ball washers

Welp, I'll admit I don't like the Mondesi trade. I would have tried him in OF, prayed he was healthy and if he produces at all you 3x his value. The best 3 options would have been:

1) Try in OF, hope stays healthy
2) Do not sign to arb deal
3) Do what they did

Seems this regime’s plan is worse than the last one’s plan.

I haven’t been less excited about a season in a long time.

They're trading Barlow, they just grabbed this guy to replace him.

This regimes entire plan seems to be not spending any money.

Yeah. Really sucks. It was looking up when they'd hired some decent baseball people from good organizations but there's nothing you can do if the owner wants to operate like this.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A rebuilding team needs a win-now bullpen about as much as a cat needs a calculator.</p>&mdash; Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/1617949645119885320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;d also be a little more convinced by &quot;but Mondesi is a huge injury risk!&quot; argument if the guy coming in return for Mondesi wasn&#39;t a pitcher who missed the entire year with a back injury except during intermittent rehab periods consisting of minor leaguers hitting 370/404/611.</p>&mdash; Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) <a href="https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/1617951821309349900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It's very smart to cut costs and look like the Pirates while asking for a new stadium..brilliance there.

I'm not in love with the Mondesi trade but this is where we are now I think. Dayton always said KC was a different market and that affected his decision making and judging by the blowback you see on Twitter and such he was absolutely right. It hasn't even been one full offseason and a lot of people already hate the Tampa Bay model of trying to build a team.

Sherman flat out said they need to be more transactional and take emotion out of decisions and so far that's what they're doing just like Tampa. That means trading good players, not overpaying free agents and being ruthlessly efficient with both money and production. We'll see how it pays off but he definitely told the truth, I'll give him that. It's pretty clear they're trying hard to create a pitching staff with no holes so they can play matchups all day long. Openers, different closers based on the matchups, starters only going 3-4 innings if the numbers dictate it. At least that's what it looks like.

Well shit now I hope the Royals sign Bauer just cause that'd be fun.