Because no organization clings more stubbornly to the "scout's view" of a player than the Royals. It's painfully obvious. Look at the track record.

Hochevar and Davies are the best examples, but they are far from the only ones. Jeff Francoeur last season is another great example.

Luke Hochevar passes the eye test with flying colors. If you watch him throw, you can see what SHOULD be there.

But that's a good thing... it's the Royals' only hope of moving him, that someone buys into the eye test at this point.

Best Family Feud episode ever?

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I know which family fued you are referencing it has cards vs royals with willie wilson on there reading ebony or something

So the Tigers are reportedly shopping Porcello for bullpen arms and high-upside prospects.

The apparent interest in Rick Porcello is mystifying to me. Why does anyone is baseball want this guy?

He's 25, is an extreme contact/luck pitcher, and has never shown any signs of being a strikeout pitcher at all. His already-atrocious K rate is likely to drop as he gets older, too - just like every other pitcher as he ages.

I realize his FIP number looks slightly better (4.26 vs. 4.55 ERA), but the guy has enough experience now to believe he's someone who underperforms his metrics, just like Hochevar.

He has a cool.baseball name.

Bill Naharodney.

I'd say yes to Porcello in a heartbeat.

We have 4 solid starters right now and Duffy and Paulino coming back at the end of the year. We won't be adding any more starting pitching.

and even if we were looking, Detroit sure as hell wouldn't trade him to us, unless they believe he's terrible and could give us some losses.

Then do not want.

I could understand how they'd believe he's terrible. As he is...

Just dropped a few hundred bucks to see 3 Royals Spring training games... Rangers, D-backs and Dodgers. Can't wait!

A few hundred? Spring training? What?

4 ?

Shields
Santana
Guthrie (maybe)

Who's the 4th?

4 tickets a game, which averages to about $17 a ticket. Not too bad I don't think.

Wade Davis is the 4th starter. I think he'll do just fine, but they really need him to start to justify the Myers trade.

Former Royal Ryan Freel committed suicide today.

http://deadspin.com/5970824/report-f...cide-at-age-36

Former utility player Ryan Freel, who broke into the majors with Toronto in 2001 and played the majority of his eight-year career with the Cincinnati Reds, committed suicide today. First Coast News in Jacksonville has the first report:

First Coast News sports director Dan Hicken has learned that Ryan Freel, a Jacksonville native and former Major League Baseball has died at the age of 36. The cause of death is suicide.

Freel played baseball at Sandalwood and Englewood High School. He played for five different MLB teams from 2001-2009. He is most known for his six-year tenure with the Cincinnati Reds.

His career batting average was .268 he stole 143 bases in his career.

Since his retirement from professional baseball in 2009, Freel was a part of an organization on the First Coast called BLD Baseball which stands for Big League Development. Through this organization, Freel coached local youth baseball players.

Freel was named head baseball coach at St. Joseph Academy in June. He shows up in the Deadspin archives on a few occasions which you can see here.

We'll update this post as more information becomes available.

Ryan Freel, Former MLB Player From Jacksonville, Commits Suicide [First Coast News]

Jeez , if he could survive playing for the Royals, you'd think he'd survive everything else

RIP, Farney.

The Royals have signed Endy Chavez to a minor league contract. He was somewhat OK in 2011 (helped by a high babip) and atrocious in 2012 (but he had a hilariously-low babip)

He's probably about what we could expect Frenchy to do, except a lot cheaper. Along with Xavier Nady and Willy Taveras (both also signed minor league contracts) we now have an entire grab-bag of awful-to-underwhelming outfielders in Omaha.

We got new BP hats. Yesssss.

Chavez is at least a solid defender who can occasionally get on base. He's also been a complementary piece on a lot of winning teams. Solid signing.

I'm ok with this.

Dionisio Soldevila ‏@dSoldevila

Miguel Tejada signed a 1.1 millon garanteed contract with the KC Royals.



http://ESPNDeportes.com reporter

How does Miguel Tejada fit in?

Is he back on roids?

lol. Maybe we'll squeeze something out of him at 2B, but he's BRV at this point, in all honesty.

this is only about 10 years too late.

Anyone know what Jose Canseco is up to these days?!

Holy crap! That dude is older than I am!
It may be time for me to go try out with the Royals!

Has to be said: And the O'ssification of the Royals continues...

Wow, ossification is actually a real word...my spellchecker didn't ask me "WTF is this shit?".

Anyway. I'll always root for Tejada; hope he has a decent year left in him (and maybe some B12 left in him too) but Endy Chavez was absolutely useless last year. You know that army of faceless JAGs who seemingly were touched by Jebus and inexplicably produced for the 2012 O's? Yeah, Endy was evidently bent over tending to an ailment and the touch missed. He's one of those veterans who are good for OF depth though.

Other reporters saying its a minor league deal.

You would have to assume so wouldn't you? I mean come on, dude is old as dirt.

Realistically, who would he be replacing on the ML roster? Getz? I'm not even sure who our backup SS/3B is at this point, so maybe that?

Tejada is a pretty bad signing, even for utility infield. We should be able to find someone better than that.

Tejada did not play a single game in the majors in 2012, and it wasn't because he was hurt.

edit: its a bad signing if he's getting a major league contract

He didnt do that bad in Winter ball but reading its a minor league deal & invite to spring training

Apparently the reason why Tejada was signed was because he's doing well in winter ball. Maybe he's here to push Getz in spring training.

First post in 2013.



WTF Dayton? Migel Tejada?

Tejada's old ass at 2B?? Can't be worse than who we have, right?

Yes I do, as a matter of fact!

He plays softball tournaments routinely on weekends here in So-Cal.

I've played in a few tournaments where he and his brother play on the same team.

Needless to say, both beat the crap out of the ball (his brother hits farther in softball, by the way).

So, yeah, maybe that qualifies him to replace Frenchy!

Miguel Tejada's green zone in mvp baseball 04 was off the chain

Top Prospect Alert ‏@MinorLeagueBlog

#Royals Salvador Perez final line in Venezuela Winter League regular season play .371, 10(2B), 8HR, 39RBI in 32 Games

Retweeted by Bob Dutton

Sick.

Wow, he has progressed to the point where i think he should be resting next winter.

A month after trading hurlers Jake Odorizzi and Mike Montgomery to the Rays as part of the deal that brought James Shields and Wade Davis to Kansas City, the Royals added some pitching depth on Thursday, signing right-hander Blaine Boyer to a Minor League contract for 2013.

Boyer, 31, was drafted by Atlanta in the third round of the 2000 Draft and went 9-14 with a 4.81 ERA in his 233 appearances with the Braves, Cardinals, D-backs and Mets during the 2005-09 seasons. The groundball specialist has allowed just 17 homers in 234 innings pitched.

The Royals plan to announce the club's Major League camp non-roster invitees at a later date.

Gary Cotton is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/new...ews_kc&c_id=kc

Looked around at about 80 or so HOF ballots, if thats a representative sample, its depressing. I have to agree with Rany, the best possible outcome might be no one elected this year.

It doesn't look like Bagwell's getting in this year, the only one who might is Jack Morris, and he does not deserve it.

FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal reports that the Red Sox, Rays, Nationals and Royals were all in attendance to watch Javier Vazquez in his Puerto Rican Winter League debut on Friday.
By all accounts, Vazquez looked very sharp during the outing. He pitched six shutout innings, allowing just three singles and no walks while racking up four strikeouts. His velocity sat consistently at 93 mph, touching as high as 95, and he maintained good command of the strike zone. Interest in the veteran right-hander should heat up after this terrific showing.


THIS WOULD EXCITE ME GREATLY.

Don't think we have the money though.

Javier Vazquez!

Of course we have the money. The question is whether Glass will spend it.

(Note: not really bitching about payroll because it is at a respectable level.)

Man I thought I was gonna read "Royals trade Frenchy for Mike Trout"!!! Best sports day EVER!!!

Vazquez would be an excellent one-year signing. Just an excellent pick-up.

Shields
Guthrie
Santana
Vazquez
Davis

That would be an excellent rotation upgrade. I mean... I was beating the drum to bring in three new guys for the rotation this offseason. If they compeletely make-over the rotation... wow.

Def would love to get him on a one year deal

Holy **** it would be awesome.

I know we said this before...

BUT it might be a good time to be a Kansas City sports fan
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Couldn't agree more.

You know you are a deprived sports fan when optimism is all you have every offseason.

But for once, please be right!

if you can't be optimistic , I'm going to borrow from htis here, then why be a fan anymore? what would the point be
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And ftr I'm ready, how long till spring training?
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Royals and Chiefs be good at the same time? Hell yes sign me up.

45 days or so. My mother in law got me a 10 game mini pack for Xmas. Seats are right behind home plate. My boner still hasn't subsided. Hurry up 2013 season.

I bet it'll take 1 year, $10M for Vazquez.

MAYBE they could get him for $5M with incentives.

I've always been a big Vazquez fan (so long as he's not pitching in NY). If he's got something left, I'd love to have him.

Does your mother in law know about this boner?

Hope they make a solid attempt to sign him, it'd be big

I wore a KC Royals shirt to the gym today. Got asked if I play for the team.

Damn I must be looking swole!

This ain't the steroid era anymore, brah.

Looking like a baseball player isn't exactly a compliment.

Well I do look swole so I took it as a compliment. I usually get asked if I play college football. So eat it, dick!

Is Chris Getz your workout partner?

ROFL

Chris Getz wouldn't even be allowed to wipe my ass if my arms were broken.

That was kinda the point of the joke. Just bustin your balls.

lewcansecodog

Kicker

Every time this thread is bumped, I think we signed a new starting pitcher.

Be nice.

He's sweating a 51-51 game at Iowa.

#big10bball

#getexcited

Every time I see it bumped I get pumped because for the first time in a long time and basically my whole life we can have legitimate optimism about the upcoming season. I don't really count 2004.

Endy Chavez has come home. Life is good.

welp. The Royals got better, but according to at least one of the computers, they did not improve enough. The ZiPS projection is not fully out yet, but since the Royals "went all in", they released a sneak preview of KC.

Our rotation was upgraded by about 2 wins. Hopefully some of our hitters will bounce back a lot more than expected, and Frenchy will have a WAR on the correct side of zero. Billy Butler is projected to be our most valuable hitter, and James Shields is projected to be our most valuable pitcher.

instant fun poll: the Royals went all-in.

What two cards are we holding? To make it simple, assume we went all-in pre-flop, we bet first, with 5 players at the table.

I'll say Queen-King suited.

Ace Jack. Seems fitting.