[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by tk13

It wasn't two years ago the Royals were at that 75-80 million mark and spent more money than playoff and World Series teams on multiple occasions. Of course that was because of guys like Guillen and Meche. They moved a lot of that money out to bring in Moose and Hosmer and those guys. You would hope the payroll will get back to that as we sign some of these guys. But people probably have about zero memory. I think they're at 60 million now. I get the logic behind it. You're probably looking at numerous increases of payroll this team will potentially face in the next 3-4 years.

We'll see what they do. If everyone pans out obviously you can't keep everyone. But they haven't let someone walk because of money since Beltran and that was almost a decade ago. I think boneheaded decisions by the front office have a million times more to do with things than money spent. And those payrolls aren't even including all the money they threw at FAs like Torii Hunter or Kuroda or Orlando Hudson who shot them down.

The indication in the past is that they can save some money in the short term while these kids mature and once they are due bigger contracts we will have "saved" the money to pay them. We'll see if that happens. If it doesn't even I will have a hard time continueing to back the team. It's good that they've already signed a few long term while the getting was good.

I don't find anything wrong with having a small payroll right now while most of the team is young and hasn't earned the big payday yet. Once a few guys have earned it we better pay it or it was all just more lip service imo.