Royals Release Gobble, Sign Lerew
 

Royals Release Gobble, Sign Lerew
By Drew Silva [March 18 at 2:19pm CST]
According to Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star, the Royals released left-hander Jimmy Gobble, and signed right-hander Anthony Lerew to a minor league contract.

Gobble spent the last 10 years in the Royals' organization, but his lack of success against right-handers finally led to his termination Wednesday morning. The Royals will save $1.1MM with the move, but are reportedly still about $4MM over their budget for 2009.

Lerew will head to Royals camp after he passes a physical. The 26-year-old pitched in 11 games for the Braves from 2005-2007, but spent all of last season in the minors.

End of an era.

Thanks Jimmy. You were an alright guy despite the whole "vs. righties" thing.

he will go to the braves where glavine can teach him

I didn't hate the guy.

Shocking. We signed another Braves minor leaguer.

I'm glad to see Jimmy replaced as the team in the past has been too patient with players like him. I soo much wanted to see him be successful, but just never got over the hump.

Gobble.
Gobble.
Gobble!

Should've done the Gobble for Blalock trade a long ass time ago

with the royals luck, he'll probably be an allstar somewhere. he had the potential, but never quite got there. oh well, good luck jimmy.

So, Yimmy Yobble is gone and we get Jason LaRue masquerading as a 26-year-old pitcher?

are you a royals fan?

Hard to believe it's been 10 years.

This all goes back to July 21, 2008. He never should have been out there, much less that long.

Eh.