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The KC Royals won’t be shedding any tears about Francisco Lindor’s departure from the American League.
Thursday’s trade that propelled Cleveland’s Francisco Lindor out of the American League was always a matter of when and where, never if. Everyone around baseball knew, probably as early as late 2019, that the Indians, a team with increasingly tight purse strings, weren’t going to pay Lindor the kind of money he could easily command from other teams when his contract expires in less than a year. And although Kansas City wasn’t a realistic destination for Lindor, the news Cleveland dealt him to the New York Mets had to be welcomed by the KC Royals.