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2012 Kansas City Royals Repository Thread
2012 Slogan: Our Time
A better, more accurate 2012 Slogan: It is Finally Next Year (from Great Expectations) An alternative slogan if you don't like that one: Someone has to win this crappy division (from alnorth) With the beginning of a new year, it is time for the 2012 version of the Royals Repository Thread. We've got Hosmer, we've got a 2011-dominating Gordon, we've got Moose, we've got hopefully a killer bullpen, we've got a stereotypical slow slugging DH, we've got easily one of the best defensive shortstops in the AL, we've got a promising catcher in Salvador Perez. Hell, we've got offense and promising prospects galore. We do not have starting pitching. Oh yeah, we've also got this: ![]() Get ready for, (as of January 2012 anyway), one of the most confusing puzzles of a baseball season in recent Royals history. Will they suck? Maybe, I don't know. Will we be given a year of 0.500 baseball? Possibly, I don't know. Will they win the division and go to the playoffs for the first time in 27 years? For the first time in a long time, it could happen, I don't know. 92 losses, 92 wins, or anything in between would not surprise a lot of us. Everything goes here except Gameday threads and really big news. If a giant story breaks, the Royals achieve some awesome milestone, or we sign/lose a highly significant player/coach/mascot/whatever, then it might also deserve its own thread. This being Chiefs Planet, please do not clutter the board with new threads about trivial Royals news or you will only annoy those who come here for just Chiefs football. If you aren't sure and its not a Gameday thread, it goes here. What sort of stuff often goes here? SPchief explained it well, so I'll just copy that: Quote:
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Butler has a friendly contract for what he produces, I fully agree. I'm merely pointing out that 28M is a lot more than 1M that Bundy would cost over that same time frame. I don't know that Bundy would produce the 10+ WAR that Billy would but in dollar terms, it's hard to see how he wouldn't be a better value.
Of course, that assumes Bundy doesn't flame out like many prospects do. That is a possibility. Butler is about as sure a bet to get 3+ WAR the next few years as anyone in the game given his age and his recent few years. |
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Well this is certainly inaccurate.
The O's pitching sucks, The BoSox pitching presently sucks and the Blue Jays pitching really sucks. The Yankees pitching, apart from CC Sabathia, is largely hot garbage. The Rays have good pitching, I'll give them that. Apart from them, there's not a single plus pitching staff in the AL East. The best pitching in baseball is probably in the NL East, in fact there's no probably to it. The Phils, Nats and Braves all have pitching staffs that are at least the equal of the best staffs in the AL East. The 2nd best pitching in baseball is probably in the AL West, though with Haren getting injured/traded and Greinke likely leaving the division, it will take a step back. I'm looking forward to the O's vanishing into the ether again next year just so people don't have to listen to you try to talk about a sport you're mostly just guessing at. But by all means, please continue to enlighten us as to how Derek Holland is a better trade asset than Justin Upton - you did so well last time.
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Steve (Baltimore) Do you believe trading players in the same division? If so, wouldn't an Alex Gordon for Delmon Young trade make since for both KC and Minn? Keith Law (2010 1:59 PM) I've always thought the idea that a team should pay more to acquire someone in-division was stupid. Value is value. If some team in your division offers 5% more than anyone else, take the deal. Gordon's defense at third has been shaky enough that the Twins should pause before taking that deal. Result? 2012 WAR values: Alex Gordon (6.2), Delmon Young (-1.2). Good job there, Keith! |
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First off all i said was Texas would never do that dumbass 4 way trade people came up with here. |
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I mean it was just brilliant. They'd take the 10 shittiest guys on their team, throw in a kid that was 22ish ("Because the Cardinals want to get younger") and act like they were doing the Cards a favor by rebuilding their team around 10 players while taking a guy the Cardinals were clearly going to lose anyway. Oh inevitably somone would claim that including Bigby or Lopez in the deal would just be giving up way too much, but for the most part they were all too happy to give up every piece of spare roster trash they had. Orioles fans are the worst. Well, except for Beaker fans.
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Texas would've made that trade in a heartbeat because Jon Daniels is much smarter than you are.
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I resent that.
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If the years was only 3 months long, they'd be set...
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This is the funniest post I've read on here in the month I've been on the board. I looked at the Braves & Mets board. Reasonable deals everywhere. Medland + Tehran for Myers. Dickey for Cain + Ventura. Things like that. Lots of knowledge about our farm system, actually I was surprised reading how detailed the Mets fans were about our own players. Lots of interest in guys like Mondesi and Bonafacio. O's fans? One actually wrote: "Bundy for Butler? More like Butler AND Gordon!" ![]() |
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