Originally Posted by petegz28 (Post 9804190)

I like him and I'll root for him as long as he is a Royal but I think he is a player we need to consider trading

Originally Posted by tk13 (Post 9804198)

For what? If it's someone like Stanton... sure, sign me up. But unless the Royals move to the NL somebody has to DH. It's not like that position goes away. The guy just won the Silver Slugger Award at the one position where all you do is hit. Why on earth would you trade him?

Originally Posted by DeezNutz (Post 9804189)

Trade him to whom? It has to be an AL team for starters...

We've gone through this a million times; Butler is a very, very good hitter, whose value is almost certainly greater to the Royals than to about any other team.

All the reasons you're killing Billyy, which are largely hyperbolic, are also evocative of the reasons why his trade value is marginalized.

Originally Posted by DeezNutz (Post 9804203)

Because it's Butler's fault, not Davies, Frenchy, insert name of scrub at 2B, Moose, Moore, etc.

Originally Posted by tk13 (Post 9804198)

For what? If it's someone like Stanton... sure, sign me up. But unless the Royals move to the NL somebody has to DH. It's not like that position goes away. The guy just won the Silver Slugger Award at the one position where all you do is hit. Why on earth would you trade him?

Originally Posted by petegz28 (Post 9804208)

hyperbolic? Come on. Now I agree he is worth more to us than say Detroit or Cleveland. But that being said it shows how over-stated he is. Royals fans act like he is just as valuable to them as he is us when in reality that isn't so. Anyhow, I'd trade him if the deal were right.

Originally Posted by petegz28 (Post 9804210)

What did we get for French? Oh yea, not shit. I am just saying we need pieces and you have to trade value to get value and Butler is a value we can live without, imo.