ChiefsPlanet - Royals 2011 Kansas City Royals Repository Thread

Hey guys let's all over react because we signed a utility guy who actually had a pretty good year starting for a playoff team last year to a one year deal to be a utility player. He's better than Getz. He was featured on Webgems plenty flashing some nice glove last season (yes I'm aware those aren't always "normal" plays for him) and he has some power.

We're obviously doomed. We might as well just send Sanchez and Broxton back and let Chen bow out of his new contract and give up on Moose and call Cain "no Melky" and go ahead and see if the Yankees would just like to have Hosmer now so we can avoid him leaving later. Here comes another 100 loss season. We've killed it all now. Tear down The K. We signed a utility type player to be a utility player.

Really guys? C'mon man.

:doh!:

This is the only overreaction I see. OBVIOUSLY it won't mean much in the grand scheme of things, no one is claiming it is. At worst, maybe we lose an extra 1 or 2 games. Probably not, more like 2 or 3 runs.

However, its a disturbing move by DM, because its not like infield utility is this rare hard-to-fill position. There are literally dozens and dozens of players he could have picked up for dirt nothing who are at least as good as, if not perhaps better than Yuni.

Saul Good

12-20-2011 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by alnorth (Post 8224328)

We needed a right handed bat. We needed a utility infielder. We needed someone with a little pop coming off the bench. Yuni fits all three needs.

He's a fringe player as a starter. He's well above average as a backup.

Dr. Johnny Fever

12-20-2011 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by alnorth (Post 8224328)

Yeah but my overreaction was simply making fun of yours and others.

I guess it's good that we've come far enough that we can now argue over the validity of a utility player signing.

DeezNutz

12-20-2011 07:28 PM

Whenever I find time to go to a movie, I intentionally pay money to see the worst available one playing at the theater.

lewdog

12-20-2011 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by beer me (Post 8224381)

I guess it's good that we've come far enough that we can now argue over the validity of a utility player signing.

:clap: I can applaud this

I am sorry for my knee-jerk reaction. I can understand it on some levels and it isn't a huge issue at all but I agree with alnorth, plenty of others would could have filled this role.

DeezNutz

12-20-2011 07:34 PM

Again, one-year deal means it's not a huge deal. Nevertheless, when a team is looking for a "utility man," you're basically looking for a glove. Bats play. If the player could swing it, he wouldn't be a utility man; he'd be a starter.

So we sign someone who sucks shit in the field. Smart. You want pop off the bench? Cool. Betancourt isn't that player either.

It's just an all-around, stupid, flawed decision, but it's one that can be brushed off a bit because it's relatively harmless. I will note that it's funny that Rany said that the signing shouldn't "hurt the team too much."

Always good. Not "this is a decent move." Not "this makes the team better." In this case, we're discussing the degrees of negative and stupidity. Vintage Dayton Moore.

stonedstooge

12-20-2011 07:40 PM

Wonder what happened with that Navarro(wasn't that his name?) dude that came from the Red Sox. They never gave him much of a chance

Pitt Gorilla

12-20-2011 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by stonedstooge (Post 8224411)

Wonder what happened with that Navarro(wasn't that his name?) dude that came from the Red Sox. They never gave him much of a chance

Some other team claimed him, IIRC.

alnorth

12-20-2011 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by beer me (Post 8224381)

Yeah but my overreaction was simply making fun of yours and others

No, I didn't overreact. For some reason you comically blew this up to thinking we were thinking it was more than it was. It was not. Its the offseason. There is no baseball news most days of the week. This move, small as it is, is a dumb move. So, we are going to complain. Deal with it.

Shogun

12-20-2011 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by alnorth (Post 8224420)

dumb at the moment, it could turn out being good.

teedubya

12-20-2011 08:06 PM

So what do you think are the "odds" that Greinke will want to come back to the Royals?

Shogun

12-20-2011 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by teedubya (Post 8224434)