The Royals have already made a bit of splash this off-season, spending over $100 million to upgrade a team that lost 106 games last year. But they may not be done, according to a report from Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic. In his column today, he writes “they remain open to adding one more piece — a closer.”
The free agent market for closers has thinned, with former Royals reliever Aroldis Chapman signing a one-year, $10.5 million deal with the Pirates this week. But Rosenthal writes the Royals may be looking to make a deal.
With the free-agent market all but picked out, the Royals’ preference is to make a trade, according to a source briefed on their thinking.