The car was successfully repaired.

Do surgeons seek out healthy ligaments to replace with tendons, or do the patients generally arrive "wrecked"?

I have some friends that pitched against Kerry Wood that said he didn't work very hard to stay in shape.

Breaking News (insert drudge report siren, but just one of them right now, not 2 or 3)

Zack Greinke has asked the Kansas City Royals to trade him, reported by Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Z...s-agent-121710

Story is longer than that, but I didnt want to copy the whole thing. The rest is useless filler.

Zack really wants the **** out of kc huh....i wasn't sure how badly he wanted to be out of here

Before any of the "can't say I blame him" bullshit gets tossed around, let me say up front that Greinke better keep his ****ing mouth shut throughout this process.

The Royals (and Baird specifically) gave this dude the room and respect to try to fit himself to a John Deere down in Florida. The least he can do in return is play the role of the good soldier and not do anything that could negatively affect the return for the club.

He hasn't so far. I'm just sayin...

well, unless we have at least 2 or 3 teams who really want him badly that we can play off each other, we probably need to lower our expectations. Greinke may have shot his trade value to hell. We should no longer expect a "kings ransom" where we "win decisively".

I now merely want a fair deal.

Keeping Zack at this point is NOT an option because knowing him, he could sit out or at least mope around enough to make sure he's nowhere close to a type A free agent in 2012.

Agree 100% they coddled the **** out of him....and can thank the Royals for his career continuing as it is..

We have no quotations from Greinke or the Royals at this point--though the "separate ML sources could be anyone--so I don't think his value has been affected too much.

Hell, a club bidding for his services could have leaked the story.

I'm just suprised after all that cliff lee chasing that zack isn't traded yet or we're hearing any rumors...i want this shit done, makes me nervous

If we dont get an angry denial tomorrow morning, then its true. Otherwise this clown's journalistic reputation is severely tarnished. I'm presuming its true, and its not exactly a surprise given the new agent, you had to know something was up.

No worries. We'll move him and get a strong return. This "breaking news" story smells like shit (read: Yankee).

If Moore is smart, he'll make a strong statement (and a call to Greinke to shut up and he'll get his wish).

Lets hope
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Those Greinke threads probably need to die, so I'll put this here. Cool interview today with one of the editors of Baseball America on the Royals farm system. (according to him, the Royals farm is so good, that the gap between them and #2 is about the same as the gap between #2 and #8)

12-21 podcast, 3rd one with JJ Cooper, you have to skip ahead to about the 15 minute mark because they first spend time on other topics and what Billy Butler said about Greinke.

http://www.610sports.com/pages/5282388.php?

Interesting comments on Wil Myers that I hadnt thought of. We all expect him to move off catcher and into RF at some point because his defense hasn't been that good, if his bat is that good and it will take him another couple years to develop his defense you'd rather not wait, etc. There's another reason that seems obvious now, but no one really talked about much.

If Wil Myers is projecting out to possibly be one of those legendary triple crown threat type of hitters, then if it actually works out and he does fulfill that kind of lofty potential then you want him to play every day. If he's a right fielder, he probably plays 159 or so games a year. If he's a catcher, he might play only 120 games a year like Joe Mauer. That is a lot of production you miss out on if he's got an elite-level bat.

If he was a great catcher or we were chock full of good outfield prospects that would be one thing, but we're not and his glove doesnt look like it would ever improve above "below-average catcher", so I'd want him to bat every day.