Royals close to signing Reggie Sanders - Page 4

tk13 · 12-22-2005, 04:04 AM

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5...0813162&ATT=49

Royals close to landing Sanders
Ken Rosenthal / FOXSports.com
Posted: 3 hours ago

The Royals, continuing their effort to add established veterans, are closing on a two-year deal with free-agent outfielder Reggie Sanders for approximately $10 million, FOXSports.com has learned.

Sanders, 38, is expected to play left field for the Royals, who earlier this week signed first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, second baseman Mark Grudzielanek, right-handed starter Scott Elarton and backup catcher Paul Bako.

Several teams, including the Dodgers, were reluctant to give Sanders a multi-year deal. But the Royals, after losing out to the Cubs for free-agent outfielder Jacque Jones, valued Sanders' leadership as well as his production.

The Royals will be Sanders' eighth team in the past nine seasons. He spent the past two years as a regular with the Cardinals, reaching the World Series in 2004 and National League Championship Series in '05.

Sanders was leading the postseason with 12 RBIs last October when he suffered neck and back injuries after an awkward spill in the outfield in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.

During the regular season, he missed nearly two months after suffering a broken bone in his right leg in a collision with Cardinals center fielder Jim Edmonds. But for the most part he has been durable, averaging 26 homers over the past five seasons.

A career .267 hitter, Sanders is eight homers short of 300.

JohnnyV13 · 12-22-2005, 05:43 PM

Reggie Sanders WILL make the postseason this year.....

after the Royals trade him at July 31 deadline to a contender for more prospects that blow out their arms in September....

KChiefs1 · 12-22-2005, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by shakesthecat

The fact that Terrence Long isn't playing OF for KC this year is worth 5M alone, IMO.

VonneMarie · 12-22-2005, 07:14 PM

Why? Why?

Logical · 12-22-2005, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by tk13

I like it. I don't think it's the greatest move ever but it's not a bad one. It's less years than Jones, and we don't have to give up a draft pick. I think Reggie can give us 20 homers/15 steals. The strikeouts don't really bother me because he's supposed to be a middle of the order guy anyway. Obviously I'd like him to walk more, but he's got some pop. I'd rather he strike out than hit into a bunch of double plays and kill rallies the typical Royal way, and Reggie doesn't do that. He's actually never grounded into more than 10 double plays in a season.

Color me suprised, I thought you were advocating building through young players.

kcfanXIII · 12-22-2005, 07:30 PM

if he goes to the post season every where he goes, that sounds like a good vetern to have around a bunch of young guys. its starting to sound like we might play some .500 ball, if we can keep our starting pitchers in the game longer than 5 innings. its hard to excited for royals baseball, but i find its easier if i think about going to the k, drink some beers, get a hotdog or two. especially if i think about warm summer nights, and compare it to whats outside right now. than its really easy, how long before spring training?

JohnnyV13 · 12-22-2005, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Vlad Logicslav

Color me suprised, I thought you were advocating building through young players.

But see..there's a plan now, we need to buy time for our prospects to DEVELOP......aka the SAVE ALLARD's JOB plan.

tk13 · 12-22-2005, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Vlad Logicslav

Color me suprised, I thought you were advocating building through young players.

Yeah, but if you don't have any prospects ready to play at a certain position, you have to put somebody there. You just can't say "oh, we won't have a RF this year". Look at last year, we were trotting Terrance Long and Eli Marrero out there in the OF. And at the same time, you can't just put a team of 25 youngsters out there. It's not like this move immediately blocks somebody like Billy Butler or Alex Gordon. They're still a year or two away.

Valiant · 12-22-2005, 08:40 PM

Sanders is one I do not want, but Jones would have done shit here.. At least sanders would be short term with the 2yr contract, hopefuly voidable...

Frazod · 12-22-2005, 09:18 PM

I like Reggie. If he has to leave St. Louis, I like the idea of him coming to KC. An oldie but a goodie.

Halfcan · 12-22-2005, 09:45 PM

Wow I can almost hear the crowds at the K chanting now, REGGIE, REGGIE, all dozen of them. And he will come up from the dugout in street clothes and give them a wave before going back on the bench to collect his paycheck.

Are they really trying to make this team worse or something-it seems like they are giving every effort to make this team a bigger laughing stock than last year.

SCTrojan · 12-22-2005, 09:50 PM

I realize it doesn't take much to improve on 106 losses, but I think the signings have improved the ballclub. Like tk said, you can't simply go with all young guys and hope they'll figure it out. You have to have some sort of mixture. At least on paper, the vets they've brought in are an upgrade on the vets they had last year.

Elarton, Redmond, Sanders, Grudzielanek and Mientkiewicz this year.

Lima, Long, Marrero and whoever else last year.

Frazod · 12-22-2005, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Halfcan

Wow I can almost hear the crowds at the K chanting now, REGGIE, REGGIE, all dozen of them. And he will come up from the dugout in street clothes and give them a wave before going back on the bench to collect his paycheck.

Are they really trying to make this team worse or something-it seems like they are giving every effort to make this team a bigger laughing stock than last year.

What the fuck are you talking about? Sanders is GOOD. He damn near beat the Padres by himself in the first round of the playoffs.

Granted, he's not a long term solution, but he's certainly a big step up from whatever the hell was there before.

Logical · 12-22-2005, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by tk13

Yeah, but if you don't have any prospects ready to play at a certain position, you have to put somebody there. You just can't say "oh, we won't have a RF this year". Look at last year, we were trotting Terrance Long and Eli Marrero out there in the OF. And at the same time, you can't just put a team of 25 youngsters out there. It's not like this move immediately blocks somebody like Billy Butler or Alex Gordon. They're still a year or two away.

I understand, but it sure seems like you could someones 30 year old that hits .265 and at least have some hope of him making a 4 to 5 year contribution along with the Veteran leadership.

tk13 · 12-22-2005, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Vlad Logicslav

I understand, but it sure seems like you could someones 30 year old that hits .265 and at least have some hope of him making a 4 to 5 year contribution along with the Veteran leadership.

Well, I wouldn't disagree with that. Really, this FA crop sucked. That was the biggest problem. Jacque Jones sort of fit that mold, although he's had his struggles offensively, and he would've cost us a 2nd round draft pick. I was prepared to give that up for his defense but it didn't work out that way.

But there's a lot of guys out there in FA who are old or who have gone downhill like that. Look at the Tigers, they signed Kenny Rogers, who is 41 years old, to a 2 year deal at $8 mil a year. That's ridiculous. The Blue Jays gave a SP with a .500 record and a reliever who'd been a closer for 1 year a combined 100 million dollars. I really didn't want the Royals to get into that garbage, and they didn't.

It helps to say this though when we've got three hitters in the minors, Billy Butler, Justin Huber, and Alex Gordon, who project into 1B/OF type players that all have great bats.

Halfcan · 12-22-2005, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Vlad Logicslav

I understand, but it sure seems like you could someones 30 year old that hits .265 and at least have some hope of him making a 4 to 5 year contribution along with the Veteran leadership.

Vlad is right-Yes Sanders had a great playoff series-But he is old, and will likely get hurt again. I for one, am tired of hearing about the so-called youth movement-yet we bring in guys like JaunGone, Bennie Santiago, and now Sanders. With all the high draft picks we have gotten in the last decade-you would think we would have a replacement before we let our last two AllStar Center fielders walk.

The Yankees have to pay almost as much in a luxury tax as our whole payrole. This club does not have any plan for the future, leadership, talent, and is a disgrace to the city. I grew up loving the Royals and am very bitter that this club has been run into the ground.

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tk13 ... Join Date: Nov 2001 Casino cash: $-1747500	Royals close to signing Reggie Sanders http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5...0813162&ATT=49 Royals close to landing Sanders Ken Rosenthal / FOXSports.com Posted: 3 hours ago The Royals, continuing their effort to add established veterans, are closing on a two-year deal with free-agent outfielder Reggie Sanders for approximately $10 million, FOXSports.com has learned. Sanders, 38, is expected to play left field for the Royals, who earlier this week signed first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, second baseman Mark Grudzielanek, right-handed starter Scott Elarton and backup catcher Paul Bako. Several teams, including the Dodgers, were reluctant to give Sanders a multi-year deal. But the Royals, after losing out to the Cubs for free-agent outfielder Jacque Jones, valued Sanders' leadership as well as his production. The Royals will be Sanders' eighth team in the past nine seasons. He spent the past two years as a regular with the Cardinals, reaching the World Series in 2004 and National League Championship Series in '05. Sanders was leading the postseason with 12 RBIs last October when he suffered neck and back injuries after an awkward spill in the outfield in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series. During the regular season, he missed nearly two months after suffering a broken bone in his right leg in a collision with Cardinals center fielder Jim Edmonds. But for the most part he has been durable, averaging 26 homers over the past five seasons. A career .267 hitter, Sanders is eight homers short of 300.
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