Jose Guillen DFA'd
 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—Jose Guillen(notes) has been designated for assignment by the Kansas City Royals.

The outfielder-designated hitter was signed three years ago to a $36 million, three-year contract that made him the Royals’ highest paid player per year in team history. He was leading the Royals with 62 RBIs and 16 home runs, and he is owed approximately $3.93 million from his $12 million salary this season.

Kansas City is Guillen’s ninth major league stop. The Royals have 10 days to trade or release him.

The Royals also selected the contract of right-hander pitcher Philip Humber(notes) from Triple-A Omaha.

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About time.

If only there were some sort of a thread in which we could, y'know, compile Royals news like this. If we did have such a thread, I'd bet this would've been posted by now

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Thank you god

This deserved it's own thread.
Why even have new thread posting abilities if everything was to be combined into a general thread.

The 15000 different discussions per thread thing gets old.

Stay down, bitch!

LMAO. Win.

Jose is just misunderstood. Bet in the next two weeks we'll see an article where he trashes KC, the fans, the team, the whole situation, and will blame everybody and everything....except himself...for the losing.

When you get paid $36 million you're supposed to make a difference. He's just been stealing from the Royals, like Gil Meche, and Mike Sweeney, and Juan Gonzalez, etc etc etc etc etc.

Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it
Ever
Was.

If only there was some sort of a poster who wasn't, y'know so uptight about seeing a thread that many people may be interested in without having to dig through thousands of posts, I'd bet they would be a happier person now.

I totally agree with this. He's gonna trash everybody and everything just like the douche-lord that he is.

Best Day Ever

I wonder who we are going to trade him to. And what are we going to get?

There is a god.

Anybody
Anything
Nothing

Don't care just get him gone

No excuse for Kila not to be playing every day now

Guillen is an asshole but I don't think you can take that list of players and say they are stealing from the Royals. If the Royals ever had a team around them maybe they would have made a difference. There is not a single player in this league that you could insert instead of one of these guys and he makes any of the teams they play(ed) on a contender.

Good, now the Royals will have some money to sign another underperforming has been that none of the other MLB teams want.

Gotta agree with all of this.

The guy has gone like 2 for his last 36 AB's or something. I hope we see Kila now as the DH and not Bloomy or someone else. It's Kila time. Give the kid a ****ing chance.

Correction:

When you pay a player $36 million, you should probably ensure he's capable of being a difference maker.

Moore offered him the money - he took it. In the meantime, he's been pretty much exactly what he was for his entire career.

If Moore offers you $5 million to pitch for the Royals, you'd be an idiot not to take him up on it. When you throw 50 mph and can't get anyone out, we'll it's Moore's fault to have expected you to do so.

When you sign a guy on the backside of his prime who was never an elite player to begin with, you have nobody to blame but yourself when he doesn't live up to the exorbitant sum of money you agreed to give him.

We aren't going to get anything... just the fact he's gone is a plus.

He's leading the team in Homeruns and Rbi's and we are glad he is off the team. Odd. I understand why people want him gone, he is blocking the youth, and we see what he can do. I think the signature moment in gulliens career came in his first year, where we were down by 2 in the bottom of the 9th, he hits one that any other staduim any other night would have been the game winner, but it gets caught on the warning track.

Denny Matthews : *crack* there it goes, .....to left and deep.........................................and it caught up against the wall and that's the game. It looked for everything in the world, that it was gone.

Nah.

His signature moment occurred at Fenway when he was responsible for a force out at home...on a ball hit to right ****ing field.

Or

When WTI ripped his ass for missing the cut-off man.

I liked a couple weeks ago in Yankee Stadium where Guillen is jogging home from third on a shot in the corner, Betamit gets thrown out trying to stretch a double for the final out of the inning, and gets tagged out a step before Guillen hits home, so he doesn't score. Loafing can't be tolerated when you're on the field, ever, ever, ever. My dad used to say "Hustle makes up for a multitude of sins." I believe that.

Meche is more Hillman's fault than anything. I wouldn't say he was a real mistake.

No matter what happens, you'll never embarass yourself by playing hard.

Guillen could've slid into home while the OFer was laying in LF dead and nobody would've remembered it a day later.

Meanwhile his loafing left an indelible mark.

Is it too much to ask for a professional athlete to run 90 feet. 90 feet?!?!?

The Cards have our share of this as well. And I'll get tagged for this, but the worst are always the latins. Molina, Pujols and Lopez dog it all the time out there, especially Molina. It appears you guys have the same issue with Guillen. I don't get it but it absolutely pisses me off.

Agreed Meche was a great find till his arm fell off.

you would think with how many homers pujols has hit he wouldn't act so ****ing amazed at what he just did

These days, I'm pretty sure 36 million means you're supposed to be a quality number 3 starter... Sad state of affairs, I think.

I never understand the hate for Meche. He didn't steal anything... we signed him to a huge contract then abused the daylights out of him. What do you think is going to happen? At least he actually performed well when he was healthy.

Not following the Royals at all... What happened to Meche? He was the toast of free agency a few years ago is all I remember.

**** you, you are partial to Japanese players just like the entire league is.

Initially, it was on Hillman. Once it was abundantly clear that Trey was ****ing stupid, the responsibility for protecting the investment went to Moore.

Ultimately, both are responsible.

Meche was stellar for two years. Bad thing is, we sucked. Meche wasn't a bad signing until he was ran into the ground. He had two career years...BUT there is no excuse to let him not get surgery or to get surgery. It really shouldn't be his choice, he should have something in his contract about that. It sounds like he could have had surgery last year and probably would have been fine towards the end of this year.

He's never really "made a difference" anywhere he's been. He's hit 20+ HR's a few times in his career, BFD. It was our front office's dumbass idea to give him that contract for such a mediocre player. Same w/ Gil Meche.

Slackers.

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I don't think you want Pujols running 100% after he drives a hard ground ball to short that was fielded correctly. You have to play 100% smartly, not when it doesn't matter. If you play 100% all the time you are going to get Griffey'd and dive into a fucking wall or pull your back out of place 1,000,000 times like Mike Sweeney. Certainly you don't want to dog it like Guillen does when trying to reach home to score a run when Betamit is trying to stretch a double, but the point remains.

True to form, he lets us all down.

That is actually good to hear what he said about Kansas City.

after that first year when he called people babies and tried to go into the stands he really was pretty good. I wish he would have charged the mound or did something really crazy. We haven't had a guy try to go after a pitcher since sweeney

Why are people such assholes about this? I really don't get it. Not every member of this entire website constantly reads the Royals Repository thread. And even if they did, that thread is more for minor Royals news and chat. This groundbreakingly tremendous news definitely deserves its own thread.

Giants are 'discussing' Royals' Jose Guillen


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Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News reports that the Giants are "discussing" Royals outfielder Jose Guillen.
The struggling and overpaid Guillen was designated for assignment by Kansas City on Thursday afternoon after batting .255/.314/.429 over 396 at-bats and .151/.198/.260 after the All-Star break. He's a liability in the outfield and would not do well in San Francisco's spacious AT&T Park, but the Giants want to beef up their bench and Guillen at least boasts a hint of power. The Royals should part with him easily. Aug. 5 - 5:50 pm et
Source: San Jose Mercury News

It's not just that. Even though he is leading this horrible offense in home runs and RBIs, he is still a terrible baseball player. He is unbelievably slow, he's not aggressive, he's lazy, he strikes out at least ten times a week, he's streaky (and 90% of the time he is on a cold streak rather than a hot streak), and obviously he's just a world-class douche.

ROFL

they lead the league in hitting!

That was on a very hot Sunday. Against the Sox, during a ZG start. I will never forget the look on his face. He's simply a stupid player. Blazing hot sun in the afternoon on Mercury type stupid. More to the point it's as if the stupidity of a thousand baseball universes collapsed and that entire dimension of stupid landed between his ears.

And Dayton Moore signed him. I'm not sure how to describe that kind of stupid.

I'll take Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner .... baseball cards. They don't even have to be signed or in mint condition.

they still make baseball cards??? havent seen one for years.......seriously

Yeahhh.....
Let's wait until he's picked up by another team, then we'll see what he had to say...

Because, sometimes, a post just deserves to be quoted.