The 2019 offseason for the Kansas City Royals has been utilized as another stepping stone in the current rebuilding process. Similar to last season, a chunk of one-year deals and minor league invitations has slowly developed into the 40-man roster the Royals now possess. There wasn’t any toe-dipping into the large pool of superstar free agents, nor was there even an ounce of thought put in to adding those kind of elite-caliber players. Kansas City decided to mimic exactly what small-market, bottom of the league type clubs should be emulating.
But even as the free agent market has frozen over-hurting players such as former-Royals Mike Moustakas financially-who was forced to settle on another one-year deal-general manager Dayton Moore has attempted to capitalize on the stale market.