Kansas City Royals looking to add another arm to starting rotation – MLB News
Kansas City Royals have some tough decisions to make this offseason. There are several questions that need to be answered. For instance, is outfield prospect Wil Myers worth more than Tampa Bay Rays’ starting pitcher James Shields or Boston Red Sox’s starter
Jon Lester? How is the club going to stay within its $70 million payroll budget?
Such questions and the discussions related to them will be back in full swing as baseball moves towards the annual swap meetings next week in Nashville. Royals’ pitching rotation was the worst in the American League Central Division last season. General
Manager Dayton Moore has already used up much of the clubs’ financial resources on acquiring two veteran starting pitchers.
Ervin Santana, who was acquired from the Los Angeles Angels in a trade on October 31 and Jeremy Guthrie who signed on a three year $25 million deal last week are the two starters the Royals will be resting their hopes upon.
Now the GM is looking to add one more quality starter to the pitching rotation to solve Royals’ problems once and for all. Rather than trading someone from the big league roster, Moore plans to acquire another pitcher by trading prospects from the club’s
farm system.
“We’re now at a point in time,” he said in an interview with kansascity.com. “where we have good young players — as good as any team in baseball. Now, we’ve got to do what we can to support them. Do we trade one of them? I don’t know. I’m not trying to.”
“I’d like to use our farm system in a way to support our major-league club now that we have good, young players who are all under control. Now, it’s time to do everything we can to begin to move forward,” he further added.
If the Royals decide to keep their first baseman Eric Hosmer or any other Major League players, they will have trade someone like Myers to obtain a front of the rotation starter. It will be interesting to see if the Royals can win the AL Central Division
next year by sacrificing their Minor League prospects.
Tags: