How baseball's front offices can operate is shrouded in a semblance of secrecy. After all, if the Athletics knew how the New York Yankees develop players or the Minnesota Twins know how the Tampa Bay Rays find trade targets, there would be much more competitive balance in baseball.
The results are often black and white, but the process lives in the grey area. For the Kansas City Royals, it is a black-and-white matter that they need bats this offseason badly.
Thankfully, the winter's hot stove is the prime time for Kansas City to turn the lineup around.