Jeff Passan

At some point, though, something needs to change.

And that's either coaches or players.

And, you know, players are a lot tougher to move than coaches are.

So it will be very interesting to see how the Royals handle this because.

What they're doing this season, it is unacceptable.

It should be unacceptable.

This is not, when they put this team together, anything close to what they had envisioned for it.

So when you start doing an autopsy in season on where did things go wrong, sometimes the answers to those questions are going to bring you to really difficult conclusions.

And you just have to be...

You have to be committed to winning above all else.

It doesn't matter what the personnel is.

It doesn't matter who the coaches are.

Winning is the priority.

And so how are you putting your team in the best position to win?

That's the question the Royals need to be asking themselves right now because they're not doing enough of it.

I don't think it's going to be the manager, but the worse this gets, the louder that conversation is going to be.

And I think before you get to the manager, the coaching staff tends to come first.

It's not always the case, but when the offense is functioning the way that it has...

Clearly, there are things that the organization could be doing better.

Now, whether that's a question of talent evaluation and acquisition or player development, I don't know how to assign the percentages to that.