In a vacuum, the KC Royals demoting Terrance Gore and Matt Strahm doesn’t mean much. But given the product on the field through seven games, consider it a preliminary toe-dip toward full-on panic.
Normally, the 25 men who break spring training and head north get more than seven days to make mistakes or earn the manager’s trust before the braintrust decides “Yeah, that’ll do,” or “Wow, we gotta make a switch.”
So to send Terrance Gore and Matt Strahm down after a week speaks volumes not only about their performance (or not even, in Gore’s case) but about the KC Royals mindset.