It's like every day we freak out over a different thing that never comes to pass.

LMAO Good one

Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star reports that the Royals recently made a two-year, $26 million offer to free agent right-hander Ryan Dempster, but dropped out when the bidding got too high.
The Royals are talking to multiple teams about a trade for a top starting pitcher, but they also continue to monitor possibilities in free agency. Dempster doesn't figure to come cheap after posting an excellent 3.38 ERA, 1.20 WHIP and 153/52 K/BB ratio in 173 innings this past season between the Cubs and Rangers. FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal reported Thursday that the Brewers, Red Sox and Angels are in the mix.

Source: Kansas City Star
Nov 29 - 5:18 PM

I've got to say, by all accounts the Royals have really been making a push this offseason to improve their pitching. I'm looking forward to seeing what else they do in the coming months. If they really can nab a top-flight starter (and ditch Hoch/Chen), next year could be fun.

BOB DUTTON IS FULL OF LIES. THE ROYALS ARE BROKE. WE ARE NEVER GOING TO SIGN ANOTHER PLAYER EVER AGAIN. IN FACT, A YARD SALE WILL BE HELD IN THE K'S PARKING LOT THIS WEEKEND TO SELL OFF OUR REMAINING PLAYERS. WE SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD A BASEBALL TEAM AND INSTEAD WILL FIELD A TEAM OF WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBEMEN NEXT SEASON. THANK YOU. [/Dayton Moore]

It's like Dayton Moore says everything he can to **** with us...
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ROFL

It might be an improvement over Frenchy in right field, a wash at the plate, and 6.5MM cheaper.

Meh..it's still the Royals. You just know that Hosmer and Moose Tacos will bust, and these FA pitchers will blow their arms out in June. :)

As bad as they are at baseball, they've been awfully good at convincing me offseason after offseason to continue to watch them lose. No doubt about that.

They really don't have to do much next season. The Chiefs have got the Royals advertising covered for 2013.

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ROYALS BASEBALL: AT LEAST WE'RE NOT THE CHIEFS

Unofficial Slogan for 2013.

seconded

Watching Ronald Regan calling and speaking to Dick Howser after game 7... It's been a long time.

I was a young man at that game

If the Royals get one more decent pitcher, doesn't have to be an ace, but if we at least have 3 #3's, keep Myers, and get rid of Hoch, I'll attend more games in 2013 than I ever have in any other season, and its a long drive from Des Moines.

I still think the city as a whole is just waiting to become a baseball town. One more pitcher, a top one, could do it. The K would be 30,000+ every Friday and Saturday and would easily average 20 K the rest of the games. Even Glass wouldn't be able to do math funky enough to cover up the massive profits.

You need to raise your standards. KC averaged about 21,700 in 2012, Royals fans turn out even for horrible games. A good year would be about 2.5MM, a great one would be 3 million tickets.

Two years ago after Hosmer and Moose were up the Royals were drawing 30K in September on days the Chiefs were playing.

I was a young man watching that game on tv. You were there?

Kudos to Dayton for the Paulino signing. Best news of the day for me.

We played hardball with him and Paulino blinked, got him to sign for less than what he would have gotten in arbitration, because I guess we convinced him that we would cut him and then he'd probably get less on the open market.

Look at the Royals acting like a major league club.

turning the corner.
yup.
yes we are.:thumb:

I support this. It's about damn time.

Ha...whats paulino thinking? He really thought we would cut our best pitcher. We dont cut kyle davies for three years and luke hochevar for like five. He shoulda known he wasnt goin anywhere.have to say we have some guys on some pretty good contracts like escobar and salvy. They might wanna fire their agents

Nice! I hadn't looked at attendance for a few months but I could have sworn we averaged around 15,000 on the season.

You haven’t been following the Royals very long have you? :D

Well, happy Luke Hochevar day, everyone.

Sometime between now and 11PM, we are either going to be very happy, or very pissed.

I'm wearing a brown colored shirt in honor of what an absolute POS this guy has been for this franchise. Hope it works?

From my liking of Zack Greinke on Facebook:

hahahhahaha!

Yeah, I bet! The Royals! They are going to shell out $150M for Greinke!!!

From my liking of Zack Greinke on Facebook:

hahahhahaha!

Yeah, I bet! The Royals! They are going to shell out $150M for Greinke!!!

Petro's opening on this yesterday is available on podcast. It's a good starting point for SaveourRoyals.org.

He made Glass out to be a complete liar.

A courteous mention no doubt.

I know this is going to make everyone happy ...

Royals agree to terms on a 1 year deal with 2b Chris Getz avoiding arbitration.

I'm OK with it, though hopefully within a year or two we'll have a replacement ready to take over. Getz greatly improved from "unacceptably horrible" to "bad" in 2012.

Our time

I really don't get royals fans on the other board flipping out over Gio. He's a good guy with a great family, but he was utterly horrid in 2012. Yeah it wasn't many at-bats, but he's also just not good enough to be patient and hope he figures it out, his defense is worse than Getz his bat was always supposed to carry him, and he hit quite a bit worse than Getz which is incredible considering that he was previously known as Chrisiesky Getzancourt. Maybe Gio will beat him out in spring training.

We have no good option at 2B. Gio doesn't have much of an upside, and Getz is probably capable of repeating his unimpressive sub-par 2012 where he's at least better than replacement value.

Still hoping Colon can develop into a league average 2B.

Yeah, Gio has been a pretty big disappointment. Not sure he's anything more than a AAAA player at this point, which stinks. I was a big fan.

What they really need is a rangy second baseman to help make the great up-the-middle-D pay off (and help the lacking-range Hosmer). Or, if you're going to play a guy who has merely average range (like Getz), get someone with a big stick.

Pretty far down the totem pole of priorities, though.

I just read a Mets forum thread about Wil Myers. Their fans think Myers straight up for RA Dickey OR Jon Niese (that's OR, not AND) is completely fair. ANd some think its an overpay. Good for a chuckle.

Ummm ... And teams fans think _we_ over value our players!

Billy Butler ‏@BillyButlerKC

Hey Powerball winner/Royals fan in MO...feel free to drop some $$$ off at the stadium... it will be put to good use!#pitching #spreadthelove



LOL This is just sad.

:facepalm:

Poor ole David Glass just can't make it. ****ing loser

lmao

I imagine that'll get deleted.

Nah Billy wants to be traded

what if the dude was a HUGE Royals fan and was like..."**** it...make a push for Greinke and I'll pay half his contract for 20% of his ticket sales every home game he pitches for the duration"

which would probably be like $1.5M a season...for 7 seasons...so he'd spend $75M for $10.5M! **** that! Not worth it.

Billy's good and all...but he's no superstar and he's a DH. Can't imagine the market would be that huge for him.

Cant happen he would need to become part owner first.

From the numbers he picked he doesn't appear to be a current Royals fan.

Sadly, they just confirmed it was a quick-pick. So just a weird coincidence.

well Alnorth this lottery was all yours for the taking and you BLEW IT!!!

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS

Angels trade for tommy hanson



Think they gave up a lot ?

DKnobler ‏@DKnobler

Hanson goes to Angels for Walden


Wow didn't really give up much.

link?

I'd say the Angels made out like bandits on that one...cheese and fries!

None, Billy is just being funny. That tweet didn't look out of bounds to me at all.

I realize Hanson has some warning signs, but wow... straight up for a reliever (albeit one with closer stuff)? When the Braves have Kimbrel and Venters already?

Seems like they could have used Hanson to get more...

Wow.

The medicals on Hanson must be really bad.

That said, there is a belief from some that Hanson will either need to scrap his entire delivery (which has an odd hitch in it that's causing his shoulder to overload) or move to a relief role anyway.

It's still a great trade for the Angels. I'd have gladly traded Joe Kelly to the Braves for Hanson if that was the asking price.

Wow.

The medicals on Hanson must be really bad.

That said, there is a belief from some that Hanson will either need to scrap his entire delivery (which has an odd hitch in it that's causing his shoulder to overload) or move to a relief role anyway.

It's still a great trade for the Angels. I'd have gladly traded Joe Kelly to the Braves for Hanson if that was the asking price.

Wow.

The medicals on Hanson must be really bad.

That said, there is a belief from some that Hanson will either need to scrap his entire delivery (which has an odd hitch in it that's causing his shoulder to overload) or move to a relief role anyway.

It's still a great trade for the Angels. I'd have gladly traded Joe Kelly to the Braves for Hanson if that was the asking price.

tick-tock. up to 8.5 hours left.

Put up your predictions now, I say Hoch will be non-tendered.

I'll go with this because I want to believe it.

Hoch will be non-tendered.


.... and replaced by Jair Jurrjens after he's non-tendered by the Braves. :p

The Royals will send Hoch to the braves for Jurrjens.

Wait, i'm doing it wrong.

As a Braves fan as well, i'm surprised they got Walden TBH...Hanson's value has never been lower. I like Walden too...frees up more $$$ to get a LF bat too.

Good trade.

Got a gold glove outfielder we could interest you in, again?

Adam Rubin ‏@AdamRubinESPN

Just spoke with Mike Pelfrey, who has been informed he has been non-tendered. Will have quotes on blog soon.

Adam Rubin ‏@AdamRubinESPN

Just spoke with Mike Pelfrey, who has been informed he has been non-tendered. Will have quotes on blog soon.

I think I'd rather have Jurrjens, and I don't really even want him.

7 hours remaining

Yup, he'd be a better 5 than Hoch.

we need paul byrd

The guy is falling of a cliff, just say no..

Billy was being serious. When he i joking he adds "GIT-R-DUN" on the end

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