After an awful start to begin the year, the Royals will certainly be sellers at the trade deadline, and speculation has already begun on who they might trade. Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic wrote a piece last week where he reported that the Royals are already talking to teams about Aroldis Chapman, with the possibility of packaging him with another player to improve the return or shed payroll. One team interpreted that packaged player to be Salvador Perez, which fueled speculation the Royals might look to trade the seven-time All-Star, who is owed $45 million over the next two years.
Picollo: “We have no intention of trading Salvy.”
