Blair Kerkhoff

Is this who we are?

Was last year the aberration, the highest, the high watermarks in the careers of, you know, Vinny and Garcia, guys that you, you know, in the case of Garcia, gave a contract to.

And how do you look at it?

To me, that's what the Royals have to determine.

And

john sherman hasn't stood his point has been a guy who's been willing to make moves but not willing to make the

the big market type of purchase.

You know, we haven't seen that.

And we haven't seen the blockbuster trade that we saw in the years leading up to the, you know, the pennant seasons of, you know, a decade or so ago.

You know, the Grinke trade.

And I forget who they gave up.

Oh, the trade that brought Shields and Wade Davis.

Yeah, Will Myers, yeah.

You think about just how critical those trades were for building what to get Wade Davis and James Shields and Alcides Escobar, Lorenzo.

Those incredible return on the trades there.

Haven't seen that type, but maybe...

Maybe if the Royals were closer, we'd see something like that.

To me, I fear seeing the Royals in more of a selling mode than anything else in a couple of months.

And Oakland used to be that.

The athletics used to be that way as well.