What are the odds we open the season with a triple digit YV fast ball in the ribs?

This is where I am with him as well. I do wonder about guys like him if he gets in this Royals locker room where it does seem people don't **** around with any sort of crap. I also wonder if there was some laziness in San Diego with him, knowing he wasn't winning shit there. Also Heyward out of St. Louis.

Man.... I love baseball offseason starting in October/Novembers instead of May/June.

I can get used to that.

I think Kendall would be a poor fit for this team. Ibanez is interesting. I still think Rusty Kuntz would be a good choice as well.

I don't know that we need 2 corner outfielders. Orlando is as good as Rios, IMO. We either extend Gordon, or we take the money we paid him and Rios and sign a replacement.

Eiland for manager, perhaps?

If Yost leaves this team, I see Dale Sveum stepping in as the replacement. If GMDM retires, I think Picollo takes over.

This team has been exciting for 2+ seasons and I don't see them slowing down.

As for free agency, we should be okay I believe. I read, not long ago actually, that the Royals make about 5-7 million per playoff game. With 8 home games, I'll say we made $48 million in "bonus" money. That doesn't include our attendance boost, which was 33,438, way up over last year's 24,154.
We have Guthrie coming off of the books, as long as we buyout his contract, which will save us $5.8m. I don't think we'll tender an offer to Holland, which is another $8.25m saved. Franklin Morales should be gone, which is $1.85m saved. And Alex Rios being gone will save us $11m.
That's roughly $26m off of the books in addition to the $48m from the playoffs, not including the extra money made during the regular season.
And if Vargas doesn't pitch in 2016, we have a $6m insurance policy on him as well.
This team can easily afford to sign Gordon and Zobrist. I'd personally stay away from Cueto unless you can get him for dirt cheap.

There's so many reasons to be optimistic about this team going forward. I know there's a lot of talk about 2017 and us losing the majority of the core, but I honestly think we'll be okay. I'm excited to see how long we can sustain this success.

I would love Ibanez to replace Yost. Ibanez is the one who got the Royals to believe and turn around their season with his motivational speech in 2014!

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I'm so ****ing happy for Yost! The shit he went through in Milwaukee now winning a World Series where he was hand picked by GMDM. Who would of thought a few years ago we wanted to kick this guy out of the city and now he's probably going into the Royals hall of fame

I'm so ****ing happy for Yost! The shit he went through in Milwaukee not to winning a World Series where he was hand picked by GMDM. Who would of thought a few years ago we wanted to kick this guy out of the city and now he's probably going into the Royals hall of fame

Does Duffy move back to starter or remain in the bullpen ?