It's August now, the trade deadline has passed and now we enter the heart of the summer stretch months.
In order to prepare for those summer months, J.J. Picollo had some work to do if he wanted the Kansas City Royals to compete for their second consecutive postseason appearance. He told the media the weekend prior to the deadline he was "in the business of getting better" but no one quite knew what that looked like at the time.
It turns out he meant adding, as Picollo certainly went to work the past few days, constructing a lineup that bares more reason for optimism than it showed in an abysmal first half, while also adding to their pitching depth amid a period of major injuries to key names.