The 2023 season was meant to be a year of evaluation, rather than competitive baseball for the Royals, and boy were they uncompetitive. The team is three losses away from tying the club record for losses in a season, and they will almost certainly finish with the second-worst record in baseball.
In an interview last week, owner John Sherman said that the “season of evaluation is over.” General Manager J.J. Picollo seemed to back that up, commenting that there may be some players that they will not count on going forward.
“Unfortunately we have a couple guys that didn’t get off the ground this year that we’d like to think will rebound, but we’re at a point where we’re not going to count on that.