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Champion Golfer Of The Year
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2009 Kansas City Royals Repository.
All Royals All The Time!
After consultation with others who peruse the game threads we decided to create this as a repository for all things Royals. Minor league news, AL (ahem) Central (thanks Vonne) news and anything Royals can be found here. alnorth will continue the game threads as usual. But if you locate something of interest.. ANYTHING.. deals on apparel, best ways in/out of the stadium, giveaways, great stories from this season or from seasons gone by, rumors, trades, anything.... feel free to post it here. If a big story breaks, you can still start a thread about it. There is merely an all inclusive thread that will make a easy for us all to keep up with all things Royals. Welcome! "Grab a Brew... don't cost nuthin"...[spills beer on feet] Courtesy of ari: Quote:
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Now you've pissed me off!
Join Date: Jan 2006
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You should consider 500 runs for the year a success with that lineup.
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The nerds at fangraphs unloaded both barrels of the shotgun today.
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It's funny, too, because people have bashed Buck for years. And I don't think he's some all-world guy. But it's not like there's a plethora of catching brilliance out there. I've always thought you could do a lot worse than Buck. Hopefully we don't see that.
Although you never know with these things, some of the Royals best teams in the past 20 years (which I know isn't saying much) came with Brent Mayne behind the plate and nobody ever thought he was worth anything. |
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#2254 |
Now you've pissed me off!
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Dayton Pioli came from Atlanta. Therefore, he will be a success.
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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What a fun diversion during Bills week. It almost makes me want to look ahead to the Browns game.
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In Search of a Life
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Jason Kendell huh? Too bad its not 1998!
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I never really got the Buck hatred. I think he's basically tainted in the mind of the fans by being part of the Beltran trade, but thats not his fault. He's just basically a league-average catcher who is a little questionable on defense.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Blue Jays Sign John Buck
By Luke Adams [December 13 at 12:45pm CST] The Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to a one-year, $2MM deal with John Buck, pending a physical, according to ESPN.com's Jayson Stark. Buck was non-tendered yesterday by the Kansas City Royals. As Tim pointed out in our summary of the most interesting new free agents, Buck is still just 29 years old and has exhibited some power in the past. His career numbers are .235/.298/.407 with 70 homers in 584 games. With Toronto's signings of Buck and Raul Chavez earlier today, the Jays' backstop situation for 2010 is starting to take shape. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/ |
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It sucks, but once we declined arbitration for Buck, we had no chance at signing him. Would have much rather had him for $2MM than Kendall for $3MM. |
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Oh, for f**k's sake, we spent an extra $1MM next year to significantly downgrade at catcher.
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#2262 |
The Illuminati
Join Date: Oct 2004
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We signed Brian Anderson today for $700K.
Meh. Actually I don't really hate this deal. He is a great defensive CF and has shown potential with the bat in the minors. At worst, he will provide some competition for Maier and can come off the bench as a defensive replacement late in games. |
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It's the Patriot way.
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If so, great. If not, who cares... These kinds of moves should happen frequently for a club like the Royals. Maybe we'll catch lightning. |
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Looks like Brandon Morrow is going to Toronto for a prospect and Brandon League.
I REALLY hope we talked to Seattle about him, because he is exactly the type of player we need to be trading for/acquiring. Young, HUGE upside, and available. Morrow, along with Greinke and the pitching we have in the minors could have been an awesome start to our rotation. |
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