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Originally Posted by RealSNR
I'm talking about a very specific part of that WS team being luck.
The Royals don't go to the World Series if they don't hit on most of if not all of these calculated risks:
Chris Young
Ryan Madsen
Edinson Volquez
Kendrys Morales
Alex Rios (who finally put it together in the final part of the regular season)
They batted 1.000 on those guys.
Moore deserves all the credit in the world for those guys, but just as easily as you can absolutely nail a 2 year $20 million contract for a guy like Volquez, you can extend at a "hometown discount" a guy like Alex Gordon and see him absolutely tank in his OBP and power, even if you took into account him seeing a gradual slight regression in those areas when you offered him the deal.
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Didn't they go to the World Series the year before without any of them?