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And this would be another reason not to get too attached to prospects. Not only do they routinely fail and not reach their expectations, they also can get dealt before even being given the chance to fail.

Not to say that this isn't a very steep price to pay for Shields and Davis (both of whom are pitchers that I like quite a bit after watching them regularly for their entire careers), many of you are taking for granted that Myers will be this all-star type player when you just can't assume that. He could very well be a damn good one and that will hurt if it happens, but there is a non-zero possibility that he won't be. From everything I've heard and read about him, Myers is not the next Mike Trout here. He has some red flags.

Shields has been better over the last two seasons than the guy who just got 150M from the Dodgers. In fact, only Verlander, Felix, Price, and CC have been better than him in the AL in recent seasons. That is a significant (albeit short-term) upgrade for KC. Davis is also a guy that I've thought to be better than his peripherals. He always pitched well against NYY as a SP and flat out owned the Jays during his time in Tampa. He should slot in as a decent enough 4/5 if they choose to make him a starter, which should be an upgrade on what they have before.

The goal now for the Royals has to be to improve their team immediately for 2013 and that means trying to get an upgrade on Francoeur. You can't stop here. This just pushed up the window for contention, Glass might even want to spend some money to do it this time.