Billy Butler will have a career year and hit 30 bombs. Mark this post mother****ers.

Ken Harvey was at least a prospect. Mark Redman was basically a 4/5 starter. Harvey never really recovered after they sent him down for Calvin Pickering.

Back to the DH:

The thing about a full-time DH that you need to remember is that the replacement isn't the same as the replacement for a position guy. If someone like Infante, Cain, Gordon, or Perez goes down, we're screwed because their replacement is going to be a massive downgrade and may not even be on the active roster now.

If you don't have a full-time DH, his replacement is not a AAA player. His replacement is the rest of your team. You are giving all of your starters 5 or 6 games off anyway, if you have them DH then your starting hitters fill out 1/3 of your DH spot for the season. (especially since Salvy will get at least 20 games off from catching and he's a good hitter) The other 2/3 comes from bench guys who were able to hit well enough to make your team. You can't compare the DH to a replacement-level player, because the replacements will all probably hit well enough to put up decent numbers.

12.5MM is a ton of money to pay in 2015 for someone who will only be a marginal upgrade over the other guys on the team who would pick up the slack, Butler really needs to blow up for that to make sense.

Still amazes me that people think Sweeney was clean before he got his money. Of course he quit doing the 'Roids after he got his money. He quit working out, let himself go and of course when that happened he developed those injuries. I think once he got injured he really mailed it in and that was it. The losing wasn't his fault though, that is on the Glassholes.

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Normally accumulation of injuries isn't associated with STOPPING steroids?

Complete bullshit speculation without a shred of evidence to back it up.

Did A-Rod quit doing steroids after he got his money? Barry Bonds? Sammy Sosa?

Haters are gonna hate. Their "reasoning" doesn't have to make sense.

Sweeney started having problems once he stopped eating Captain Crunch and switched to Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Actually the injuries are associated with steroid use. I don't doubt the back injuries killed his career, but steroids were the reason for his back injury. Jason Grimsley was a big time steroid guy for the time he was here in KC. But it's all ancient history now, Sweeney is back and Royals fans can continue to love him.

How do steroids cause back injuries?

I obviously can't prove it but I think Frenchy used his first year in KC then quit when got paid.

Steroids can cause skeletal and muscle injuries simply because the strain of bigger muscles puts on them is far more than if you develop them naturally.

Do you have a link? I'm also guessing if anything Mike was taking test and hgh which would prevent injuries. He wasn't exactly Jay Cutler.

Gotta agree with George here. Sweeney is a loser. Bad karma having him around.

HE'S A LEGEND OF THE GAME. DON'T BELIEVE ME? JUST ASK HIM