Royals don’t find any deals at Trade Deadline

ST. PETERSBURG — The non-waiver Trade Deadline rumors may have swirled with other teams, but trade speculation remained relatively quiet all week for the Royals before the Deadline passed at 3 p.m. CT on Monday.

Some of that perhaps was by choice, some no doubt by circumstance.

Royals general manager Dayton Moore said early last week that he wasn’t about to “dismember” his team because of pending free agents. He also added that any deal made would have had to make the present team better as well as the 2017 club.

Nothing evidently unfolded meeting that criteria.

“We didn’t see anything out there that we believed could make us significantly better,” Moore said, “that fit into our financial situation or with regards to what players we would have had to give up.”

Sure, there was a minor deal, the Royals swapped Minor League outfielders, getting speedy, switch-hitting Billy Burns from the A’s for Brett Eibner on Saturday.

But there were no deals to help the fading 2016 Royals, who had lost 19 of 26 entering Monday, and no deals yet to bolster the ’17 group.

There were some teams who reportedly inquired about relievers Wade Davis and Luke Hochevar. But that interest was zapped when Hochevar was diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome last week, and when Davis was diagnosed with a strained flexor muscle in his right …

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