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Bob Dutton @Royals_Report
We'll see if they're right, but #Royals think Odorizzi tops out as a three -- nothing wrong with that, but they think Ventura, Zimmer...
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Bob Dutton @Royals_Report
...and possibly Lamb will be ahead of Odorizzi by 2015 and maybe by 2014. Again, we'll see. But file that away..
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So, many of us like Odorizzi, but the Royals do not? OK, fine. Its not like we were trading him for one of those 3 guys, and he doesn't look worse than Davis to me. If we call that portion a wash and just flat-out ignore the other 2 players as inconsequential, we still gave up 6.5+ years of Myers for 2 years of Shields. Even if Shields were willing to extend, he'd then be 33 in 2015 with a huge amount of mileage on that arm, so it might not be a good idea to extend anyway.