The MLB lockout is officially here, which means that there is going to be no additional free agency activity or substantive trades until the owners decide to end the lockout (for it was the owners and the owners only who instituted it in the first place). Teams can and will sign foreign talent and minor league free agents in the interim, but the Kansas City Royals—alongside every other team—are done.
And, well, the Royals are done without doing anything, having signed precisely zero players to big league free agent deals. They didn’t make any trades, either, not even a minor trade involving someone like Cam Gallagher or his roster equivalent.