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Originally Posted by alnorth
We have a $12.5MM team option with a $1MM buyout in 2015 on Billy Butler. If we let him go some fans will cry about same old Royals letting their best players leave, but honestly I don't know if he's going to be worth it. This feels like a contract year to me, where Billy needs to prove that we should keep him on another year as a full-time DH.
How good does he have to be for you to pay him 12.5 in 2015? Would it be enough if he repeated 2012 (.882 OPS, a little over 3 WAR), or would he need to do better than that?
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He has to be 4/5ths Cabrera good. As frustrating as he can be in pressure situations, or his bad habit of GIDP as PB pointed out, he's still one of the better hitters on the team. If he plays this season at 2013's level or below, you pull the eject lever on his ass for 2015, fan favorite or no. He HAS to step up at the plate this season. It is his ONE JOB.
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Originally Posted by Chiefspants
The general consensus is that the odds go up every day we get closer to Spring Training. After the Garza signing, someone here said the odds went from about 1 in a 1,000,000 to about 1 in a 1,000, and I would argue those odds have since gone up to around 1 in 100 (Still a longshot, but the odds are increasing moving in our direction).
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This is great news. I'm going to do my best not to get overly excited, but it's nice to know that the chance is looking better and better (no jinx, dammit). Santana returning with the guys we brought in would almost be fap worthy.