Blair Kerkhoff

However this season ends for the Royals, and let's just for the sake of argument say it doesn't end in a playoff.

Let's say it's not a 95-loss season, but it's losing somewhere in the mid-to-low 70 win, and they don't make the playoffs.

I don't think it's a clean the house situation yet.

Certainly personnel moves would have to be made, but I think the manager, the general manager, would be back in that scenario.

I don't know what it would take, to be honest with you, for them to make those kind of moves.

Well, you said it a moment ago and you said it well that, you know, asking the question, is this who they are?

You know, we we were hoping last season with with Garcia, with Pasquotino, with Salvi and, you know, in the sunset of his career that that's who they were.

But, you know, two full months into this season now, we're about 55 or 56 games in, more than a third of the season.

I think that's long enough to establish an identity of what kind of season you're going to have.

I'm not sure Vinny's going to turn it around.

He certainly absolutely can't duplicate the numbers that he had a year ago, which is, you know,

It's such a shame because it looked like, you know, in 2004 when he was on pace for 100-plus RBIs when he broke the thumb, and then he had the big 113 RBIs last year, and you think, okay, that's who he is.

Where is this coming from, you know, with him?

And why is it like this?

And like I said, a little bit of regression with Salvi, but...

He's still on pace to hit 25 home runs this year.

He's not driving in many, but nobody is on this team.

I don't think that right now there's a guy on the team who's projected to have 80 RBIs.

So that's the question.

To me, what you ask is the biggest question in the offices of the Royals is,