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A small comparison between Buck, Olivo, and Kendall…
Jason Kendall –The last two years 282 games played, 2490 innings, 8 passed balls, .314 caught stolen percentage with 119 total stolen bases.
Miguel Olivo, over the same period – 161 games, 1340 innings, 14 passed balls, .352 caught stolen percentage, 75 stolen bases against.
John Buck 153 games over 2 years, 1317 innings, 6 passed balls, .166 caught stolen base percentage with a total of 100 stolen bases against.
The Royals will miss the HRs from Olivo and Buck but the batting averages are close to the same.
The savings for the Royals will be in money. John Buck would probably be $3.5 million with arbitration and Olivo could be $3 million and Jason Kendall will be around $2 million.
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