Hoch can also earn an additional $400k based on incentives for games started or games finished

Dayton forgot to mention "It's Harry Truman's Hometown...."

I also saw where Getz signed with Toronto. I don't know if that includes the rights to his wife or not.

The important thing to take away from this is that he is no longer available for DM to try to sign. Now, watch him go out and trade for him

5 mil for Hoch?

Jesus H Mary mother......

I dunno what to say..... Just when you think DM is starting to wisen, he reverts back to his old tricks.

Gotta be a misprint.

MLBTraderumors.com (well-known for very good arbitration predictions) estimated 5 million for Hoch, and 4.1 million for Hosmer. So, we did a little worse than expected for Hoch, but better than expected for Hosmer.

5 million for Hoch was pretty much what we expected.

Does that make it any less Stupid?

Yes. I sat behind her at the Royals game in 05 or so when she was in town to see Penny pitch. And by the 5th inning, our local goobers (probably from Raytown or INdependence) had spotted her and were coming down for autographs. Like 10-12 before the usher started to hold them off. It was embarrassing to watch.


I noticed she had a tatoo on the back of her neck. Or maybe that was just my splooge.

You "splooged" on her neck, yet you have the audacity to call people from Independence "Goobers?"

The ones from Independence would have cordially invited her out to the parking lot to snort some crank. We're all about the hospitality.

I didn't mean to, it just sorta happened. She was wearing some sort of Kentucky derby hat and had a book if I recall. I dind't know who it even was until the goobers started showing up and a scout next to me told me who it was.

Thats just how arbitration works. As much as I despised Hoch (I wanted his ass non-tendered last year) he was a dominating setup man last season, and that has value. At this point we probably have to keep him if we want to have a decent chance in 2014 with this rotation.

I don't know if he would have gotten 5 million in free agency, probably he would, but if we didn't want to pay what arbitration was going to force on us, then our only alternative was to cut him.

Nauseating

Bonifacio gets 3.5 million avoiding arbitration.