The Royals finally made their second major league trade of the season, sending Andrew Benintendi to the Yankees. It’s impossible to say if it was a good trade or a bad trade until such time as the pitchers the Royals acquired make it - or decidedly don’t make it - to the big leagues. Regardless, a deal had to be done. The baseball draft is such a crapshoot after the first round, and even during the first round, that three prospects seems automatically better than the relatively high pick they could have gotten if they’d kept him and extended a qualifying offer.
The Royals cannot be done dealing
