call em' quick and offer wil myers and a live arm?

****ing dumb Mariners. I don't get why they did this either.

I am shocked at this deal. Shocked. Seattle had the makings of a starting staff in that park to really compete for something over the next several years. Supplement the offense w/o dealing your young aces and away you go. Instead you trade for an unproven bat with no position, and it's a Yankee prospect. They're notoriously overvalued.

Amazing thing is not two years ago Jack Z was so highly thought of in baseball circles. Looked like Seattle was really on the rise. Certainly more than enough Royals fans would've shipped Dayton out for the guy, he was worshiped over on Royals Corner. Now I don't know what the heck he's doing. He just broke up what could've been a championship rotation and worst of all, he bailed out the Yankees. Not to mention trading a young pitcher who's actually proven something for a hitter who hasn't, that's absurd in today's market. Maybe he knows something we don't.

lol, just when you thought Cashman has lost it...

damn

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/14...ouzmanoff.html

Royals sign 3B Kevin Kouzmanoff to a minor league deal. Sounds like he'll have a legit shot to be the backup 1B/3B.

This.

Montero is probably going to be a plus hitter, but pitchers with multiple Cy Young, ace potential like Pineda are worth more than what they got for him.

No doubt about that.

Jack Z's star has fallen tremendously. What a disaster he has been over the past few years.

Last year, he looked like the 3B version of Betancourt, it was the worst year of his career. Before that, he hit just a little better, but had much better defensive years, no idea what happened to his glove last year.

If last year was a fluke and 2008-2010 is closer to what we could expect, then he's a decent backup for Moose, and its encouraging to see that DM wanted a different answer for the nightmare scenario of Moose getting hurt.

Barring injury, hopefully this guy and Yuni do not start more often than once every 10 games. If that is their roles, great.

edit: for some reason he's got an opt out provision if he's not in the majors by May 1. I seriously doubt he'll opt out, but I guess he wanted some faint hope to sign with someone else if he didn't make the team, blew up in AAA, and we had no spot for him.

In other news, (Yankees got Kuroda too) this quote from another board pretty much says it all.

The Mariners are F'ing stupid.

Royals released their advertising slogan for the year - "Our Time."
http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/new...=pr_kc&c_id=kc

I just saw that. These things are always a bit cheesy, but I like that one. Hopefully the team delivers.

Minus the Bear Tie in!

Not sure what I think, but its definitely better than the hilariously low-expectation "major league moments".

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...10406346_n.jpg

Let's hope it's not altered to:
HARD TIME

Alternatively, if the Royals are losing so bad that you need a drink:

POUR TIME