Rany made a great point earlier today: we need either to sell or to buy. Doing nothing would be a poor, poor choice.

I agree with him. Doing nothing and not trying to improve this year or for the future would be disappointing. Because this is the Royals, I expect to be disappointed.

With Detroit getting a closer today, that might be pretty tough.

Seems DM got himself into a bit of an escalation of commitment scenario. With the Shields trade, they are invested in winning now. To do nothing would waste the trade (and everything we gave up), so now we have to spend more to justify the sunk cost.

Exactly. You can't partially go all in, which is precisely what DM did.

Through Sunday for the AL Central teams.

Detroit:
- Strasburg vs Sanchez
- Gonzalez vs Verlander
This is a pretty equal series so Detroit going 1-1 is reasonable.

- Three vs Chicago: Pretty lopsided so realistically our best hope is 2-1.
That would put Detroit at 62-47 after next Sunday.

Cleveland:
- Danks vs McAllister
- Peavy vs Kazmir
- Quintana vs Kluber
- Sale vs Masterson
Pitching wise, the matchups aren't that unequal. Hopefully, the White Sox get a little bit of luck and take two games and Cleveland goes 2-2.

- Three at the Marlins. We can really only hope that Cleveland loses one to go 2-1.
That would put Cleveland at 60-51

Kansas City:
- Santana vs Pelfrey
- Guthrie vs Correia
- Shields vs Diamond
The pitching matchups favor us big time. This is a series we must win two, but I think we can go 3-0.

- Three vs the Mets. The pitching matchups will be mostly equal. Their offense has been struggling even more than ours so hopefully we can get 2 to go 2-1. That puts us at 56-52 after Sunday.

Detroit - 62-47
Cleveland - 60-51, 3 GB
Kansas City - 56-52, 5.5 GB

If we can do this we pick up 1.5 games in the AL Central and assuredly move up in the wildcard standings.

He is a set up man for them. Benoit is still the closer.

Our singular focus right now has to be running down Cleveland. Then, we try to chase down Detroit. Going to need to play well and have a bit of luck.

Not really. Rios is what this team is lacking, a big bat. Not to mention in 2014 he will play out of his mind since he will be looking for another big contract.

Big bat? What? You must be an Alex Smith fan, too, since you want Rios to be something he's never been, too.

Unless 25 HRs in a season is KC for "big bat," which is possible.

Dayton Moore's efforts since the end of last season are the equivalent of playing the tip game with a girl you think MIGHT have an STD because of her rep.

LMAO.

Did you watch these past three games? He did essentially nothing on offense or defense.

He has one HR since June 29th.
Three doubles since June 23rd.
Thirteen RBIs since July 2nd.

Lough in those same time spans has 3 HRs, 6 doubles, and 9 RBIs.

And Rios is a -0.8 dWAR player according to BR, while Lough has been outstanding defensively, dWAR 1.2.

I will flip my ****ing shit if DM does something as stupid as trading for Rios.

Howie Kendrick should be the main target anyways.