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It's easy for people to say we should have traded him while his value was high but people forget that until the last year or two our bullpen was absolute crap. How many leads/wins did they blow? Way too damn many. So on those occasions when we had a late lead we had Soria at least to close it out (when he was good). Trading him would have been a sure sign that the team had given up/didn't care... the same things so many teeth gnashing Royals fans have lamented over and over.
Yeah he went south... had problems staying healthy. Shit happens. There was a time not that long ago when he was about the only reliable pitcher we had, especially out of the pen. So sue the Royals for keeping him and trying to win those games.
A trade at his peak would have gone over like a turd in the punchbowl. Bulletin boards would have exploded. Oh the horror. It's easy to look back now with 20/20 vision.
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