Royals looking for pitching help in offseason

Despite finishing 69-93 and missing the postseason for the second consecutive year, Kansas City remains confident in its current group of players and believes it has the pieces in place to compete in 2027.

Kansas City also entered the season with 14 players from their organization named to World Baseball Classic rosters, tied for the fourth most in the Majors.

“We didn’t play well early, and then the injury bug hit us,” Picollo said. “We’ve got to be realistic in our evaluation. … [And] we didn’t feel like this is a situation where we’re going to try to start over.”

“Some of that is just forecasting what our rotation is going to look like in ’27, ’28. There is potential [that] both of those…