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Yes... to the thread title question. Maybe not as thread but in the Royals repository thread.
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Viva La Soria
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Closers are the most over-valued position in baseball. Find a good one, then find a team dumb enough to trade a ton for him.
Good mid-relievers come in during much tighter situations and are much more valuable for winning close games. |
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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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Would the team have lost a few more games? Potentially. But when you're losing damn near 100 anyway, who gives a ****. If a high-quality reliever can generate a potentially high-quality position player or starter, you make that trade every single day when you're a shit club. |
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As for the rest I'm not interested in arguing with you. We disagree on several things. So be it.
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Meaningless wins. He could have been traded for somethingthat could contribute when were are pushing for the playoffs. Or the player could have sucked. If he had he would have contributed just as much as soria the past couple years Posted via Mobile Device |
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Happiness, you stupid ****ing fan. Now go pick up that wrapper.
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NOSOTROS CREMOS!!!
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he wanted to leave clear back after Greinke did
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Yawn.
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If that's all you've got left I'll go ahead and declare victory!
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