It’s aggravating that’s for sure...glad the Chiefs are now in training camp.

they have been playing uninspired mediocre baseball for most of the year. 6th highest payroll in baseball filled with overpaid, underperforming veterans. At least for the last 15 games they have been playing great in an average division. Got the Astros, Cubs, Dodgers and A’s coming up. We will find out soon if this was a mirage or a real deal turn around.

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Nice dumb take

Spoken like a Royals fan who doesnt want to see the player who he just bought a jersey for traded no matter how meaningless his future is to the teams chances of competing down the line.

It's the equivalent to the Cubs when they held onto Castro in the middle of their intentionally tanking years. Only it actually made a little bit of sense for the Cubs to hang on to Castro given his age up until the point when they traded for Russell when they already had Baez in the minors. Castro had 1 bad year and bounced back and they should have traded him right then because you knew where the future lied. Instead they held onto him for another year and he crashed again and they wound up with ****ing Adam Warren who they traded back to the same team they got him from 7 months later because he was terrible.

Better to be in first than doing what my Pirates are doing. :cuss:

It’s not about sentiment. It’s about the value you’re receiving back.

If the best they’re getting offers for is a package that doesn’t even have a single top 100 guy in it, there’s no point in trading him 4.5 years out.

With that amount of control, you can wait the market out a little bit, at least to the offseason.

And if the returns remain marginal, there’s just not much point. If you’re moving him for scratchers tickets, you can do that at any point moving forward.

And how is anyone ever suppose to get into negotiations for a player when the asking price is so astronomical and public that you might as well hang a banner saying "I'm not selling!!"

Ponce ****ing sucks.

5 WAR players under super cheap contracts are incredibly ****ing valuable.

Super cheap and four more years...

Wacha also ****ing sucks.

Sucks about the arm injury but he also could never develop that 3rd pitch.

Of course, but age is against this particular player especially considering he is a speed guy and no one is going to give up 3 MLB ready prospects/players for him. You arent building a team around Whit Merrifield.

Look at what the Indians gave up for Brad Hand and Andrew Miller, neither of whom you'd build a team around.

Indians gave up 1 guy for Hand didn't they and there was also another very good reliever in that trade headed to Cleveland. Granted who they gave up was one of the best prospects in the game but he was also a catcher who had questions about if he had enough contact in his swing to stick.

And there's always been a premium put on pitching, especially left handed pitching.