Earlier this week the Royals finished a disappointing home stand. How else could one feel after that went 1-3 over the last four games but led in all three games they eventually lost? That’s just an absolutely brutal stretch, and since the Royals had two days to go before the trade deadline, fans all over the internet began suggesting they should be selling off pieces for prospects to try to reload for next year or beyond.
There’s an old saying, “Can’t see the forest for the trees.” It means that sometimes we focus so much on the things right in front of us that we forget to take things in their larger context.