Rebuilds are hard, but some choices are binary.
Two events of the offseason reverberated particularly loudly to Kansas City Royals fans, and should have reverberated loudly to those in charge as well.
The first was Stephen Strasburg’s free agent deal with the Washington Nationals. One of the Nationals’ aces and one of the most famous and inevitable first overall draft picks of all time, Strasburg had opted out of his previous contract to hit...