Like many Kansas City Royals fans, if our comment section can be used as a barometer, I was fairly confused when the Royals brought up Michael Massey for John Rave. It’s not that Rave particularly deserved to stay up; he had looked better post All-Star break after his sojourn to Florida, but also the outfielder had gone through a cold stretch and just generally looks like he’s overmatched more often than not at the major league level.

For as bad as Rave has been at the plate this season, Massey has been worse. He returned to the majors this week sporting a .479 OPS, a cool 75% below league average over his 209 plate appearances. That means the Royals got better production out of Massey at the plate than MJ Melendez (.321 OPS), but worse than Hunter Renfroe (.483 OPS) . The fact that all t

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