Good

Let's **** him up!

We may just have to follow the Giants model of winning it all every other season.

Who's got the GDT?

Somebody start the ****ing game thread !

All good things must come to an end...or do they?

Moore has some tough decisions to make, although I think he's already decided. The team's window is now and next year, that's why he has to trade prospects to help this current core defend the title if that's the plan and his and Yost's view of it.

Some things that might keep him up at night...

He could trade Hoz and Moose this offseason when their value is at its highest (might hurt Moose a bit now with ACL injury).

Or he can try his hardest to sign as many core guys as he can while hoping your farm developes the replacements of the players he couldn't re-sign.

I think he's gonna try to keep as many as he can and trust the farm with the rest.

What would you do?

We take the odd years & let them have the even ones. I'll take it.


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Hosmer is starting to turn into a superstar.

This 4A team is even faster with moose and gordo injured, nearly everyone in the lineup has serious wheels.

He might be there. He's putting up nearly a 30/100 pace, and hitting .300 too. And he's kind of become the vocal leader of the team on top of it.

I loved yesterdays lineup. Hope it stays the same today. Keep Morales on the bench.

Today we battle for 1st place guys !

Nice game last night, contributions from Merrifield ( first RBI's), Cuthbert (2 hits), and Eibner (first hit a double and scored). Another come from behind victory. Keep it up! :clap:

Let's get 'em again this afternoon.

He's not going to trade Hosmer, Moustakas, Cain, or any of the big impending 2017 free agents.

The only 2017 free agents that I could conceive of them trading are Escobar and Duffy. Escobar would be moved only if they felt comfortable going with Mondesi at that spot, and I think that's out the window now.

Duffy because he might be someone you can move for a change of scenery swap of some sort.



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I'm curious(in a casual way, I agree I don't think it's happening)as to what Escobar would bring back in a trade. I think there would be some interested teams but he seems to be a guy that has more value to the Royals than he would almost anywhere else. Duffy, who I absolutely could see being traded, could be a decent chip. If a team believed his wildness could be harnessed for an inning at a time, he could be a hell of a closer.

Yeah, I think the prospect of trading Escobar died the second Mondesi got suspended. Unless RA comes back from his suspension and just crushes the ball, forcing a promotion, he's not going to get regular PT at the major league level this year.

Had things gone according to plan, with Mondesi forcing his way into the everyday 2B rotation in the latter part of the summer, I could have MAYBE seen them shopping Escobar on the trade market over the winter, if they felt comfortable going with Mondesi at SS next year. Can't see that happening now.

Escobar would get similar interest as an Erick Aybar, I'd think. There are some teams that would be interested in a strong defensive SS who can run and is a good contact hitter (St. Louis, Mets, White Sox, Mariners, Padres come to mind).

Duffy would be a more valuable piece. I could see him being moved as part of a deal to bring back another change-of-scenery type with maybe a little more control.

Or, more likely, they'll just move Duffy to the pen full time and let him be. Circumstances this year had to get pretty bad to move him out of that role. I could see using him in the pen, then keeping him around after 2017 to team with Herrera and make sure the pen remains a weapon.

The real key, though, is that they're not trading any of Hosmer, Moustakas, Davis, Volquez, Cain - key/core members of this team that are free agents after next year. KC is set up to contend for a WS title again next year, and it isn't going to get enough value back for ANY of those guys to make it worth sacrificing part of their contention window.

Yeah, no way they will or should move those guys.