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07-26-2018, 09:25 PM | #3197 |
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On a positive note, Mondesi is looking really good in a small sample size so far, besides the errors of course.
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07-26-2018, 09:42 PM | #3198 |
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07-27-2018, 09:42 AM | #3199 |
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https://www.kansascity.com/sports/sp...215601655.html
Give us some more money! The single most important moment of the next decade for the Royals will happen in a conference room. No baseball people will be present. Dayton Moore will get an update when it’s over. Sal Perez may not even hear about it. But it’s coming, and soon. The Royals are negotiating to replace one of the worst television contracts in major American sports. Sources on both sides now call the talks serious. |
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07-27-2018, 09:55 AM | #3200 |
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Hopefully we can get a deal a little better than the Rays got. That could give us an extra $100 million a year in TV revenue coming in, a large percentage of which could be spent on the roster when we’re ready to compete again.
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07-27-2018, 10:03 AM | #3201 | |
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I mean aim high and all that, but damn - hoping for $125 million/season seems a little...ambitious. |
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07-27-2018, 10:14 AM | #3202 |
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Not sure how to imbed a tweet, but Dayton Moore said Merrifield won't be traded at the deadline. I simply don't understand why we've never been a player at the trade deadline (selling). It seems like we had three opportunities this summer to add talent and get this rebuild started. We had a good start with the draft. However, the next step was the IFA market where we did next to nothing (and we've been pretty horrible at finding talent for a while now). Now, trades are the last area where we can add talent and we've done next to nothing. Moore said we need Merrifield on the team and in the city. WHY???? Merrifield and Duffy both will either not be here when the team is competitive again or will be on the decline. Why hold on to assets on a 100 loss team? No rebuild should take as long as it did last time. We're choosing to just ignore a method to adding talent that nearly every other team in baseball uses. I'm sure I'll get blasted for being an idiot or whining, but I frankly don't care. Moore made a mistake not trading Duffy last offseason, and he continues to make the same mistake. Players on horrible teams are assets, nothing more. They aren't family.
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07-27-2018, 10:21 AM | #3203 |
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And Nicky Lopez is playing extremely well so far in AAA. Keeping Merrifield just blocks him and keeps him in the minors for far too long like we did with Whit. Just roll with Mondesi and Lopez and don't hang on to a 30 year old valuable asset for no reason.
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07-27-2018, 10:24 AM | #3204 | |
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We get $20 mil. per right now and TB is negotiating a deal for $85 mil. per, which i believe the Royals can aim higher than, based on our ratings, attendance numbers, fan support, ad revenue, local geographical area, etc. We SHOULD be able to do significantly better than Tampa Bay, but at the very least we need to trump their deal . . . . . |
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07-27-2018, 10:29 AM | #3205 | |
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There's zero reason to trade a controllable asset for low level prospects. You have better odds of Duffy being at least some kind of contributing pitcher in 2021 than a lottery ticket. |
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07-27-2018, 10:31 AM | #3206 | |
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Duffy and Whit will still be very valuable assets in the off season if they decide they wanna trade them then. You dont dump them now unless you get an offer you can’t refuse . . . . . |
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07-27-2018, 10:32 AM | #3207 |
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07-27-2018, 10:32 AM | #3208 | |
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07-27-2018, 10:36 AM | #3209 | |
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I also expect that if we hold on to Whit that he'll play okay the next couple of years and then start to decline around the age of 32-33 when he loses his greatest strength (athleticism). Then he will have lost any value he had and we still will not have had a winning season. I expect a similar trajectory for Danny Duffy. |
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07-27-2018, 10:37 AM | #3210 | |
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This is a no lose proposition with where the Royals are right now. |
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