In a somewhat surprising move, the Kansas City Royals traded their first piece yesterday. No, the surprise isn’t that Jon Jay was traded. The surprise was the fact that he was traded on June 6th.
This was a move everyone should have expected to happen. Jay was playing solid baseball this year, and being on a one-year deal it was obvious he was going to be traded.
When the Royals signed him late during Spring Training after Jorge Bonifacio got pinned for PED’s, it should have been obvious what the end goal was going to be.