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Not so long ago—a matter of a week or two, really—the KC Royals moving Danny Duffy before the July 30 trade deadline seemed plausible, if not probable.
The possibility of such a deal became widely accepted across baseball media, and trading Duffy, who in the last year of his contract is having such an excellent season (4-3, 2.51 ERA and 9.6 SO9 in 13 games), for prospects, then re-signing him over the winter, makes more sense than keeping him and bringing him back without getting something for him when the getting was good.