Chris Sale is a ****ing moron. If it were in LaRoche's contract, LaRoche wouldn't be walking away from $13 million. He'd file a grievance and the MLB players union would be all over it.

I think so. He has been the most impressive of the extra OF guys, including Orlando.

He definitely makes it opening day, and if he performs, I could see them keeping 5 OF, I guess.

It's all going to depend on his audition. If he takes advantage, they'll have a hard time moving him out entirely, IMO.

Duncan, I like what Merrifield has done this spring also. He plays infield and outfield. It would actually give the Royals more flexibility if they kept him versus Colon. That would allow them to keep 13 pitchers versus 12. However, he's not on the 40 man roster which means they'd have to make another move. Tim Collins to IR ?

Sale was pissed off because KW was taking the heat and lying to people. The whole situation is silly. I'm glad that bum ass LaRoche is gone.

Who replaced Andy McCullough as the Star's Royals reporter?

Man id love if NOMar Outfante would start bringing his kid around and then quit with 16M of dead money remaining

Rustin Dodd, former KU beat writer.

I still follow Andy on Twitter, but I probably shouldn't. Every time he tweets about a player injury, my heart skips a beat before I realize he's talking about the Dodgers.

This is a brilliant thought.

That's freaking funny !!!

Competition for the last spot in the bullpen just got a little thinner.

Ohlendorf opts out of Royals contract

Since he's not on the 40 man roster, it would be hard to keep him. The only person I would consider removing from the 40 man roster to keep him would be Tim Collins (IR candidate).

http://m.royals.mlb.com/news/article...oyals-contract

Back from trip to Spring Training. Went to three games and a couple morning practice sessions. Pretty cool experience, if you're into that sort of thing. The games of course lack the drama or intensity of a real game, but you get to see a lot of stuff up close.

The morning practice sessions are also interesting. Some of their drills are the same as we did in Little League. And it's pretty cool seeing how seemingly effortlessly how great most of these guys are (compared to normal humans). Gordon put on a pretty good show one day. After throwing several strikes in a row to the plate from the deep outfield, during his BP, he was just a machine. Line drive to left, liner to LC, liner to center, liner to RC, liner to right, HR to left, HR to center, HR to right. Machine. Salvy just flicks HRs out to LF seemingly at will.

Also interesting to see how some guys interact with fans. Alex I think makes it a point not to even make eye contact with fans. But if you wanted an autograph from Ned, you got one. He'd spend 45 minutes before the game going down the rail signing every autograph, taking every picture.

Lol I loved LaRoche being a pissy bitch. Saved my sox $13 mil.

*** Official 2016 Royals Offseason Repository ***
 

My 25 man as of today:

Starting rotation: Edinson Volquez, Yordano Ventura, Ian Kennedy, Chris Young & Kris Medlen.

Bullpen: Wade Davis, Kelvin Herrera, Joakim Soria, Luke Hochevar, Dillon Gee, Danny Duffy & Chien-Ming Wang.

Infield: Eric Hosmer, Omar Infante, Alcides Escobar & Mike Moustakas.

DH: Kendrys Morales.

Catcher: Salvador Perez.

Outfield: Alex Gordon, Lorenzo Cain & Paulo Orlando.

Bench: Christian Colon, Drew Butera, Reymond Fuentes & Whit Merrifield.

Lucky bastards