The 2021 season will end late Sunday afternoon for the KC Royals. And before the sun sets, talk will turn to the offseason and what roster changes new General Manager J.J. Picollo might make before spring training.
This has been a season to be remembered not so much for the Royals’ losing record—that was expected—but instead for the extraordinary performance of MVP candidate Salvador Perez, the sudden emergence of Nicky Lopez as a bona fide big league player, the mixed-bag debuts of rookie pitchers Jackson Kowar and Daniel Lynch, the disappointments that were Hunter Dozier and Jorge Soler, and the departure of Danny Duffy.