Days of speculation and anticipation and fretting about solving the Royals’ most glaring vulnerability ended Sunday afternoon with the acquisition of Cincinnati ace pitcher Johnny Cueto.
In one monumental burst arrived a harmonic convergence coinciding with a resurgence by Yordano Ventura that has ample potential to become the flashpoint we’ll look back at as when one of the best teams in baseball morphed into, in fact, the best.
It wasn’t just that the scoreboard in Kauffman Stadium’s center field trumpeted the trade for Cueto (in exchange for left-handed pitching prospects Brandon Finnegan, John Lamb and Cody Reed).