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Join Date: Feb 2013
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Not to mention guys like Jackson Holliday tearing up the minors. They are what the Royals wish they could be. |
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#3377 |
Hockey Town
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
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The Royals would have likely gotten a decent haul bad they traded Barlow 2 weeks ago but they Royaled yet again and waited to long..
So lets add him to the list of.. Merrifield Davis Moustakas Kelvin Herrera Etc etc etc Of guys they waited to long to move and got a pile of shit in return. |
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#3378 | |
The Insider
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
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#3379 |
Hockey Town
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#3380 |
The Insider
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
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Moose trade was Jorge Lopez and Brett Phillips. That was a good return. Royals misused them. Not bad for a pure rental signing.
Herrera is a reliever those are generally junk trades league wide |
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#3381 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Kansas City
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They had an aggressive trade with the Nats worked out in 2016 and Davis got dinged at just the right time to blow it up. I don’t think there was ever a great trade window for Moustakas or Herrera (unless we’re talking about completely blowing up a team coming off a WS win or skipping “one last try” before 2017). The type of return they got for Merrifield is the type of trade they were getting offered 2 and 3 years before. Seriously. They’ve been in talks on Barlow. I don’t think they’re sitting on their thumbs. There’s plenty to ding the team for. I don’t think trade situations with any of the guys mentioned is really it.
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#3382 |
The Insider
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
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Found where Mecca got it from
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#3383 |
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2019
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Nothing burger
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#3384 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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You aren't getting a top 100 guy for Herrera or Moose, etc. Actually they basically did get a top 100 guy for Moose in Brett Phillips. I think he was off the list by that point but it hadn't been THAT long since he was a top 100 guy which was an amazing return really. |
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#3385 |
World's Best Boss
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Bronco Country
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Jorge Soler was definitely a major piece for Wade, especially since he was coming off of an arm injury. The dude literally now shares our franchise record for home runs. To pull off a trade like that in 2017 has to be looked at as a success even if it didn't result in us being above .500
The thing of it is, they made a big push in 2021 to be sneakily competitive with Soler being a big part of that equation, especially after we showed real life in the shortened 2020 season. Unfortunately for the org, Matheny's red-assed "chase every win" grind it out mantra was never going to work over 162 games and we got bad Soler to start the year. |
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#3386 | |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Oct 2010
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#3387 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Oct 2010
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You know what is super discouraging?
So we are bare in the upper minors, but holy shit our lower minors are even more bare. A and advanced A are literal trash when it comes to bats. Dayton literally destroyed this team and the farm system. I don't even know what we could possibly do to make it even average. |
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#3388 | |
The Insider
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
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Garcia is 23 Pratto is 24 Melendez is 24 Waters is 24 |
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#3389 |
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#3390 |
In Search of a Life
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