The Kansas City Royals are going to be subject to some loud trade chatter over the next few weeks, especially if they continue playing this poorly. As they’ve lost six games in a row, the Royals have fallen to three games outside the playoff picture entering Tuesday. Meanwhile, if the Royals are trending downward, they’d have some huge pieces to sell at the trade deadline, especially starting pitcher Seth Lugo. On Tuesday, Mark Healey of the Rockaway Wave reported on X (formerly Twitter) that he had heard the Royals were shopping Lugo, and urged the New York Mets to make a push for the crafty right-hander.