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Originally Posted by tk13
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.
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Let's go worst case scenario. Mondesit has an MVP year after getting traded. If somehow that happened in KC, the Royals would not be able to resign him as he enters free agency after this season. So, if this majorly blows up on the Royals, the only thing they lost out on was trading the guy for a higher value to a contender. Royals trade record isn't great so even that would probably result in a minimal return that would not work out.
Mondesi has never had a passion to play baseball in Kansas City. That was not changing this year while on the Royals and it really didn't matter when they made this move.