That is definitely the question. While not all roses, his body of work with the Royals last year showed enough that I'm encouraged he's a "turn the corner" candidate this year. We'll see how mentally tough he is when he has to bounce back after he hits his first few rough patches this year...or when his offense doesn't score many runs for him. Gonna' happen.

Honestly, that might be as big as anything else he has to deal with.

White Sux extend Eloy Jimenez to 6/43 deal. It has two club options at 17/per, so total deal could be 8/77.



Oh. He’s never played a single MLB game.

Man, I hope we sign him for sole reason that it will make Prison Bitch's head explode.

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I just wish they'd quit ****ing around and stick Soler in RF every ****ing day. He's not going to get better there until they do. Put Schwindel in the DH spot until he proves he's not worthy. Play O'Hearn every day until he figures out how to hit lefties. Play Dozier every goddamned day until he sinks or swims.

I mean; these guys need to play through their weaknesses to improve. I hate all the platooning and moving guys around. Just stick 'em in there to sink or swim. We're not taking the division anyway, let's see what we have.

We never would've found out what Merrifield was if we hadn't been forced to by every other second base option flaming out.

Somebody doesn’t like my posts.

ROFL

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I think the issue with putting Soler in the field is more or less his incredible risk for injury. That's been what's hamstrung his development more than anything else.

Be prepared to be down-voted by the oversensitive Royals fans. That don’t like it when your opinion shits on their Pom Poms :D

Already got hit LMAO

I just don't know how we're going to compete with this starting lineup, and I don't know where the run production is going to come from. Hopefully I'm wrong by a magnitude of 30+ games, but I just don't see it.

well...then cut bait. If you can't play, you can't play.

There's a glut of 'maybes' on this team. I don't see how we move forward until we sort through it.

Can Phillips hit? Can Goodwin? Can Dozier? Is O'Hearn for real? Can Schwindel hit for high enough average?

THIS. Otherwise, I would agree to keep him in RF. His bat is more important than having him in RF everyday at risk of injury. Unfortunately, guy has to be kiddy-gloved because he can't seem to stay healthy.

Well, and I'm not disagreeing- then we need to move on.

his bat is NOT more important, not in a rebuilding year. It doesn't matter at all if he's not to be counted on as a building block.

We're going to need a few of these guys to bloom if we're going to make a run in '20 or '21. We need to see who.

I expect Merrifield and his club friendly controlled deal get moved in July and we'll see what Lopez is.

That's short-sighted. There's no extra value to Soler playing RF everyday. It's not like he's an amazing outfielder. There IS value in seeing if they can find a way to keep him healthy and have him contribute to the offensive production of a future Royals team. They're determining the pieces they can count on to contribute when the likes of Pratto, Melendez, Lee, Kower, Lynch etc. arrive.