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Originally Posted by tk13
I do not believe platooning the likes of Maxwell, Lough and Dyson in that position will yield similar results. That kind of stuff hardly ever plays out like you think it will because bench players end up getting overexposed... i.e. Ross Gload syndrome.
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It won't, but for 11.5MM (we have to pay 1MM to buy out), its probably going to be good enough. If we're the Yankees or Dodgers and Butler posts his usual old .800-something OPS season we could just pay him and forget about it, but we're the Royals and that kind of money means something to us. If we were a hopeless losing team maybe you keep Butler around to sell tickets and give the fans someone to cheer for, but we're presumably still going to be in the playoff hunt in 2015 even without Shields, unless all of our young pitchers go straight to hell.