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Royals Designate Jeff Francoeur For Assignment
By Jeff Todd [June 29, 2013 at 7:01pm CST]

The Royals have designated outfielder Jeff Francoeur for assignment, tweets Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star.



Bob Dutton ‏@Royals_Report 3m

#Royals designate OF Jeff Francoeur for assignment. Recall 2B Johnny Giavotella from Class AAA Omaha.

YO!!!!

Oh snap

That pinch hit was his sayonara eh?

About time.

Royal Rep Thread?

Finally

Fi-****ing-nally.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Hopefully Gio gets a fair shake at 2B (like the rest of the year) and we can acquire (Alex Rios?) a RF, or let Lough/Dyson/Cain handle the right 2/3rds of the OF for the rest of the year.

YES!

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A Royals loss, and yet a happy day.

Our problems are solved!

Yes there is a God.

Thank goodness. It is about damn time. Great day in Royals history.

The signs had been pointing to this, but I wasn't sure it would really happen.

Wonder if Gio will platoon at 2B, be fulltime, or whether against LHP he'll go to LF, Gordo to RF and Tejada will play 2B.

Giavotella has played his way into this promotion. Hopefully he can stay now.

He's been about as hot as you can be the last couple of weeks.

How can you cut a guy who didn't even murder anybody?

He was an accessory to murder of our offense.

Let Gia play full time. Once and for all to see if he can handle it.

I would assume Gio plays 2B 5 or 6 out of every 7 games. Gordon stays in LF, and either play Cain in RF/Dyson in CF or work in Lough.

I would be sad if Gio isn't starting at 2B for awhile now.

BTW not only does this mean GMDM finally sees that Frenchy sucks, but also that E. Johnson is a utility player, except against TB.

This.
His job is in his own hands now. If he doesn't perform this time then I don't see him getting another shot with the Royals.

Now if we can just find a way to get rid of ChiefsandO's fan....

:hmmm:

Calling A Hern..............

He's on the phone to Hertz as we speak

Ok, Chiefs 'n' O's fan can be annoying. But he posted the news we've ALL been dying to hear.

Don't ruin this happy day.

True enough.

There's a Delta non-stop to ATL, last one of the night, leaving MSP in about an hour. Let's get him out of town.

These pipes are CLEAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!

Does anyone pick him up?

Like Cassel leaving KC ROFL

Bob Dutton ‏@Royals_Report now

#Royals GM Dayton Moore says 2B Johnny Giavotella coming up to be the regular second baseman.

Chortle:

Tom Nardini ‏@sheck1j6 20m
@Royals_Report @Buster_ESPN buster would Yankees make a move for francoeur as an extra bat?

I hope "regular" means more than just until the All-Star break.

Atleast the royals are making moves. My white sox are the fourth worst team in baseball and continue to do nothing

No worries. They'll be selling everyone except Chris Sale and Paul Konerko.

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Excellent

Damn funny.

Boy if the Yankees swallowed our sloppy seconds that would be ironic glory.

Prediction: No one picks up Francoeur.

Do we get any relief on salary burden if someone does pick him up?

Unsure how that works.

Who cares? He's gone, that's all that matters

IIRC, the Royals pay the bulk of his salary; the team that picks him up pays him league minimum the rest of the season.

That's why guys like Frenchy are "sunk costs" -- you have to pay him whether he's on the roster or not. The money basically is already spent, whether he performs or not; you can't save any by cutting him.

Sounds right economically.

Hard to believe he's fallen so far. He was the toast of Atlanta when he first came into the league. I actually bought my Braves fan wife a Francoeur autographed baseball for Christmas one year. We still have it.

I guess I'd increase the value by erasing his signature. LMAO

Depends if they pick him up off waivers or wait til he clears waivers. If they pick him up off waivers they get his contract and each team will pay the pro rated portion he served for them, I believe.

I was assuming he would clear waivers easily.

Sweet jeebus..

Wow. Finally. **** you Jeff. **** you and your winning smile.

End of an era.

For the Yankees the salary would just be a drop in the bucket. I doubt they would go after Frenchy though.

Ya well we won't get much for our shit hitters. Might get something for Peavy and Crain out of the bullpen who has been lights out

I watched Moneyball a couple weeks back and when Bean and his accountant dude was pulling up stats on players I had to do a rewind it showed Francour's
name in it.
He has a movie claim to fame you could say.

Dayton Moore saying Johnny Giovatella is coming up to be the everyday second baseman.

Re-signing him was asinine, but at least Moore has grown tired of chasing his tail. Our GM has proven time and again that he's stupid, but he generally proves that he's not crazy, too.

The burden is clearly on the team that picks him up. :evil:

Good. Hope they give him the rest of the year to see what he's got.

And he hasn't been playing 2B in Omaha for roughly the last month why...?

This is classic Dayton Moore stupidity, but whatever.

So, what happens to the French quarter? The usual French surrender to superior forces?

I hope this time Gio gets it. He turns 26 here in a couple weeks. This might be his last chance... and the last two times he's been up he's not really been any better than Getz.

AND THE FOUR FANS IN FRENCHY QUARTER WEEP....

What a great day to be a Royals fan.

Were there any this year???

The Royals will be close to the playoffs in August until Frenchy comes in here with whatever team he's on and hit a game winning home run that essentially ends the Royals season. He will cross home plate and give DMGM the bird in his suite.

You realize he has to make contact for that to happen, right?

Royals haven't removed "Frenchy Quarter" nights from their website yet...

You know he may be skulking around in Omaha when all this is said and done. Be careful throwing up that "Mission Accomplished" banner...

He can "skulk" all he wants in Omaha. As long as he's not on the big club, don't care.

I hope someone picks him up, so that way we don't have to worry about him wasting a space in Omaha....

HE HAD A GOOD ARM

I don't know if Ned's gotten the memo yet on Gio being the everyday 2b:

Yeah, Ned needs to be canned. He's becoming a bigger problem now than he once was...

No words other than :Royals:PBJ

He has a baby on the way. Noooooo

Can't wait for the eventual time Ned is asked about this during a PC and breaks down crying talking about how Frenchy is such a good person and this isn't fair...you know it's coming lol.

hopefully ned is dfa next.

I don't blame Francouer so much as I blame GMDM for signing him to a two year deal. We could have kept Melky (and his drug habit) instead. We could have had Melky in center and put Cain in right.

Francouer is a good guy. Nobody disputes that. He just can't hit major league pitching. maybe he'll make a good scout or coach someday. And he does have a baby on the way. I think the $7 million GMDM paid him this year will more than pay for that...

LMAO

Where's Karen Kornacki when you want those hard-hitting interrogations?