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Originally Posted by jd1020
The Royals are 43-76, bud. I'm 100% serious. Find me a reason a team that bad needs to hold onto a closer who is 34 years old and only under contract for the next 1.33 seasons. Kennedy finally pitching well enough that other teams would actually trade something for him and the smart decision is to keep him?
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Think what you want "bud". And Mecca is conflating the idea of winning 7 more games with the idea of being a reliable closer for young starters. I could care less if they win 7 more games or lose 7 more games. I want Keller to have someone closing for him that is reliable. Kennedy has shown he's reliable, at least when the rest of the bullpen is mostly a dumpster. If they figure out one or two reliable arms at the back end to add to Kennedy, the team looks vastly different. If they don't, Kennedy will likely net you something similar that you were offered this year at next year's trade deadline.
Now...if they get someone to take the contract in its entirety and give us a nice return, then great. Not likely to happen. Apparently, Glass/DM are just as happy to have Kennedy back another year and NOT eat the contract. Again...not your money. You act like whatever return we get for Kennedy will take us to the promised land...or that the freed money will be enough to rebuild our bullpen...or that we're going to tank BETTER than we're tanking already if we just unload Kennedy. None of those things are true. So what they're doing is perfectly fine.