***Official 2024/2025 KC Royals Offseason Thread***

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Originally Posted by Woogieman

I have a feeling Garcia is your 3B next year, good (enough) defender, good baserunner, and the hopes he hits near .270 next yr with 13-15 HRs. Infield appears set...they need a cleanup hitter (think Kendrys Morales) that will give them quality, vet ABs and consistent RBIs (JD Martinez?), that would push Salvy and his K streaks down to 5 or 6 and would be a much more productive middle. They have to also get one solid corner OF, and maybe sign Pham another year and see what John Rave can do? I doubt they make a big splash though...

I really hope you're wrong re: Garcia. While I like him as a player in general, at third base he's... just so bad offensively... a .281 OBP? Shoot me. No power. Glad he is good with the glove over there, but he's a shortstop playing third, he should be good.

We just have too many black holes in the line up - which was laid bare in the playoffs. Have to at least try and upgrade over there.