The Kansas City Royals entered this offseason still searching for solutions to a stunning lack of production from their outfielders. It's the same general malady they carried into last winter, but with a complication — adding to the problem is the club's new desire to find an outfielder to platoon in right with Jac Caglianone, the highly-touted prospect who so disappointingly failed to help KC's chronically weak outfield bats.
Just who might be the pieces to solve this bothersome outfield puzzle continues to generate no shortage of speculation. Hardly a day goes by without a new name surfacing or previous ones being rehashed; prominently mentioned in seemingly countless media projections have been Royals free agent Mike Yastrzemski, Philadelphia free agent Harrison Bader, Texas free agent Adolis García, and Taylor Ward before the Angels traded him to Baltimore.