J.J. Cooper

I mean, to be honest, it doesn't happen even over the course of the season, right?

Like, even 162 games...

doesn't necessarily – it's enough to say this is what this team was because no one can say playing 162 games doesn't give you a fair picture.

But I look back at the Tigers last year, right?

The Tigers were one of the best teams in the American League for the first two and a half months of the season.

They were –

arguably the worst team in the American League for a stretch in August and September, but they still ended up kind of because of what they'd put in the bank at the early season, they still made the postseason.

They still basically ended up having a very similar season to the season they had the year before, even though it was the exact opposite season.

The year before, they sold at the deadline because they hadn't been very good, and then they got better.

The thing that kind of stands out to me about this Royals team is that I don't...

I don't see right now a whole lot of reason when you just laid some of the things you just laid out.

Like, I don't feel like that there's a decision point coming anytime soon where you're like, oh, okay, we've got to, you know, if you're the Royals, like, we've got to decide, are we selling or buying?

Because I don't think that this is a team right now that makes a whole lot of sense that you're going to be buying, like, you know, we're going to make giant swings, but

there's a lot of deals that can be made to improve the team that really just don't cost you much in prospects, even in salary, right?

You can help bullpen.

You can help add a part-time player or even a little bit more than that to the outfield.

Things like that can be done relatively low cost.

I don't think that this team also is at a point where you're like, okay, everyone must go other than Bobby Witt Jr.

and Michael Garcia and a few others and tear it down to the studs or anything like that either.

So I guess the best answer I could give is,