610 said this AM that Holland signed a 1 year deal to avoid arbitration. Somewhere between 4 and 5 mill. Last year he made just over $500,000, so he got a big raise.

Good for him. He deserves it.

CBS picks the all time Royals team, by how well the player did in an individual season. Interesting stuff:

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-...as-city-royals

DM's perfect streak of never going to an arbitrator remains intact.

Royals offered 4.1MM, Holland wanted 5.1MM, they settled at $4.675MM, slightly higher than the midpoint. There's also a $50,000 incentive available for making it onto the all-star team.

Here's the Royals Press Release on Holland:
http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/new...c&ymd=20140212

Cool article. Pretty rough at SS. Hochevar would make the bullpen!

If Bubba Starling played college football in a downtown baseball stadium - I think KiKi's head might explode.

AJ Burnett signs a 1 year, $16 million deal with the Phillies.

Hopefully, RA Mondesi (tired of typing Raul Adalberto) changes that by 2017 or so.

Bonifacio is now a free agent, no one claimed him so the $3.5MM contract he got in arbitration is gone. We have to pay him $575K for releasing him, but now he'll be able to sign anywhere for whatever he can negotiate, since the new team will be under no obligation to agree to $3.5MM.

..Still would like to know the real reason why we released him.

Sounds like Santanas agent is a dumbass....Parkins apparently spoke with him today anyone catch that?

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Today's Dayton double-speak of the day:

"We can't afford to give long-term deals to 31-year-old pitchers." (talking about Santana)

Jason Vargas's age: 31 years old.

Pretty cool.