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Old 08-15-2012, 08:29 AM   #6972
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Guthrie this offseason will be our Bruce Chen of a season ago. Where we desperately try to resign him, making that a focal point of the entire offsesason.

There's always one good thing to look forward to during Royals off-season:

College Basketball.
While that's possible, Guthrie is a bit more proven at least. His time with the Orioles, he was a pretty solid, No. 3-quality starter.

I'm starting to wonder how much Chen is missing the influence of Bob McClure. He has given him a lot of credit in the past for helping him master his approach to pitching. Was McClure the Chen-whisperer? Or did Chen just have two-plus years of incredible luck? He's always been a guy with a lower-than-normal BABIP. There was enough evidence for me to believe he'd figured out the 'crafty lefthander' thing. But maybe that piece he'd figured out is now in Boston...
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