So I assume that option was either torn up or picked up/adjusted due to this new contract.....?

Edited: Found what I'm looking for. https://www.royalsreview.com/2018/10...n-wily-peralta

I'll wait until ST is done before making any win/lost projections.

Go front office and Go Royals!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Brandon Maurer, Ramon Torres, Paulo Orlando taken off the roster. <a href="https://t.co/RpVovCeuTk">https://t.co/RpVovCeuTk</a></p>&mdash; Royals Review (@royalsreview) <a href="https://twitter.com/royalsreview/status/1058415433362083840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="tl" dir="ltr">Worst ERA, franchise history (min. 50 innings)<br>Brandon Maurer 7.89<br>Jonathan Sanchez 7.76<br>Miguel Batista 7.74<br>Sidney Ponson 7.36<br>Yasuhiko Yabuta 7.14</p>&mdash; Royals Review (@royalsreview) <a href="https://twitter.com/royalsreview/status/1058416437084217344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Final results of Royals/Padres trade<br><br>Royals got<br><br>Cahill: 8.22 ERA, 10.24 FIP in 23 IP<br><br>Maurer: 7.89 ERA, 6.08 FIP in 51 IP<br><br>Buchter: 2.67 ERA, 4.49 FIP in 27 IP<br><br>Padres got<br><br>Strahm: 2.05 ERA, 3.36 FIP in 61 IP, five more years control <br><br>Ruiz: 49 SB, 12 HR in Low-A, still only 19</p>&mdash; Patrick Brennan (@paintingcorner) <a href="https://twitter.com/paintingcorner/status/1058418815745380352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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damn it paulo was good!

Losing Buchter is worth at least 6 maybe 7 wins right there. That’s the guy you wanna say “**** that guy”. **** him all the way to hell!!

Rest In Peace sweet prince. You will always be Paulo homo in my book. Thanks Rex hudler.

I'm kind of surprised the Indians aren't putting QO for Brantley

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Indians don’t have a lot of payroll flexibility and didn’t issue any qualifying offers. Brantley, Allen, and Miller are probably all gone.

Their window is probably closed.

I’m glad the Maurer insanity is finally over.

That trade made sense at the time it was made and was universally reviewed well. Hindsight 20/20 on it, obviously.

But trading Buchter to facilitate dumping some salary made it worse.

At the time of the deal, you could at least look at the deal and say you’re getting similar control over Buchter, who you could expect to be a good reliever, too.

The salary dump-related deals of Soria, Buchter, and Alexander are just awful, like most deals where you move valuable assets just to save money.

The White Sox got a former first round pick for Soria (who pitched well in AA Biloxi after the deal).

Buchter and Alexander could have been moved, too.

Probably the worst misfires of Moore’s career, other than the Kennedy contract. And obviously we’re at the time of the deals, too.

The salary dumping deals really illustrated how expensive the "all-in" pushes in 2016 and 2017 were for the Royals.

No regrets.

#6

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rawlings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rawlings</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoldGlove?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoldGlove</a> Award WINNER – AL LF – <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Royals</a> Alex Gordon <a href="https://t.co/8Eni9Y3iWD">pic.twitter.com/8Eni9Y3iWD</a></p>&mdash; Rawlings Sports (@RawlingsSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/RawlingsSports/status/1059271165104001024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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And literally just as I posted that they announced that Salvy won #5. Beat Martin Maldonado, who beat him last year.

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Thought Cain might get one now in the NL but I guess I was wrong.

Happy for Salvy and Gordo.

It’s a freaking crime that Cain has still not won one . . . . .

I'm unreasonably PISSED about Cain not getting the gold.

Steamer proj just released. Says we are the identical team as last year: 12 wins for position players, 5 for pitchers (0 coming from the pen), and 65.7 wins. (You cannot simply add war to get win totals, but this is close)