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Originally Posted by alnorth
Also, the Royals did try to trade Billy Butler, but they found out that full-time DH's have almost no value anymore, unless they are incredible hitters. AL teams generally do not want a full-time DH anymore, most of them prefer to rotate the DH spot around to keep their good-hitting catchers in the game and to give their other starters a half-day off.
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This was explained literally thousands of times on this board during the season to the Royal fans who love Billy, but it never sank in. He's slow and he GIDP like crazy and he makes $8M and he hit only 15HR and you can platoon other regulars in that spot and get the same production. Yet our fans still continued to think he was Miggy Cabrera's peer. It was pathetic.
A Butler who hits like he did in 2012 with 300-29-110 or whatever is a valuable DH. But even then he only had a 3.0 WAR. Numbers don't lie.