I'm complaining that we didn't take his money and add it with the shit signings to go after a top of the rotation guy. I'm not happy with signing one decent pitcher and a pile of shit instead of getting a great starter and extended our current young/haven't peaked yet core guys.

Soria is good enough to be in our pen. His issue is the god awful contract; a dumb dfa doesn't solve that.

Cueto was too high of a risk after his AL performance last year. He even got toasted in the AS game. Volquez ended up taking the 1 spot from him last year.

Cueto had a 4.76 ERA with the Royals and you think they should have given him 150 mil?

Cueto at $20M per year looks great. He has had a great career, isn't that old, and had some stellar post season starts for us.

No. When he comes in and it's a 50/50 tossup on if he'll shit the bed today. That's not a bullet you want in the chamber.

I think Tim Collins might be more dependable at this point.

He looks good pitching in the NL

Again 4.76 ERA with the Royals.

He is definitely throwing in way too high leveraged situations. He should be behind Wader, Herrera, Hoch, and a loogy, but he is good enough to be on the roster.

Has Ian Kennedy proved he can pitch in the AL? Medlen? Kennedy had a 5.07 FIP which is a full run above his career FIP. He's kept his official ERA below 4 because of a super low .255 BABIP. Is that sustainable? (Career .290 BABIP against)

He's an NL guy. He got hammered by AL pitching in he all star game. Of course, Salvy and Hosmer had inside info on him having played with him.

We will see.. however to think the Royals were going to hand out, by far, the biggest contract they ever have to a guy that had a 4.8 ERA in his first stint in the AL seems a little far fetched, yes?

Kennedy is basically on a 2 year deal.

Gomes is sad :( someone post story. He isn't going to the white House.
http://fb.me/80LMIzcu0

My initial reaction was "what the **** is this shit?" But after reading the article, looks like the Royals hands are tied here. Someone from the White House should make an exception. The story kinda makes it look bad from a Royals perspective but what could they do? "Sorry, guy who has been with us 30 years. We're bringing last year's one speech wonder instead".

Agreed fully. Some hot takes from Twitter saying Royals have no class etc. Most from butthurt fans that had their team lose to them in the playoffs

It'd be one thing if not for the fact that the WH is the one that limited the number of people. Seems odd, as I figure a football team is going to obviously have tons of people. You'd think that the 40 man roster would be easily covered, especially when I'm sure not everyone will make the trip.

If Kennedy pitches this poorly again next year, he ain't opting out. Nobody is going to shell out 15M/per for a 5.00 FIP guy