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Join Date: Nov 2001
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This probably doesn't 100% eliminate trading Whit. What we basically did was buy out all the years we already had him under control. Now we don't have to go to arbitration with him and we know exactly what he'll cost going forward. But I always thought it was way unlikely he's traded. The game has changed. Look at how Harper and Machado are still out there. All these big market teams have totally changed the way they work. They still spend money but they don't blow out the budget on FAs and they don't trade their big prospects away so they can build from within. |
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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Good. Love Whit. No need to trade fun, likeable players if you can’t get value in return
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Join Date: Mar 2013
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Wow. That’s peanuts.
I mean, I get why he did it, significant raise, guaranteed money in case of injury, etc., but wow. He’s even more tradeable now than he was before (if they get a good enough offer). If not, the Royals get to keep a good player for next to nothing during his arbitration years. Great deal for the Royals. |
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we gonna steal some bases with a Hamilton, Merrifield, Mondesi top of the order
and blast some dongs. |
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Wait, that’s 16.25 million over 4 years? Not annually right?
Locking up Whit in his prime for essentially 4 million a year is insane. I almost feel bad for him. |
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Still, a great deal for the Royals, no doubt. |
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Join Date: May 2001
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it's hard to put a statistic to that, but how often did we see that? Nobody plays that way anymore, it's foreign to most other teams. When I was a kid lots of teams played that way but that was a different era. |
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I think 2019 could be a really interesting season for the Royals if Ryan O'Hearn can put up numbers close to last year. A .900 OPS guy in the middle of line-up? We could be a real decent team. Probably a fluke last year, but exit velocity numbers were legit, so you never know....
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Herm is the worst...horrible
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We have a "not bad" rotation and I think the bullpen could actually become the biggest improvement if one of our rule 5's surprise and Zimmer shocks. Otherwise, the bullpen will be a work in progress for 2019 and we'll be well short of .500. If the bullpen surprises, getting close to .500 is not completely nuts in our mediocre division.
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