If nothing changes on the roster between now and opening day, your starting outfield is some combination of Whit Merrifield (very good), Bubba Starling (struggles), Brett Phillips (struggles) and Jorge Soler (better as a DH). While I still believe in Phillips in so far as I think he could make a career being a defensive monster batting ninth on a good ball club, I don’t see his bat as a threat in the lineup. Bubba Starling also grades out very well defensively, but it really feels like the ship has likely sailed on him.
So the Royals could use a veteran presence in the outfield to allow the Royals to try to win games while rotating Bubba and Phillips in to give them their shot.