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05-13-2019, 03:27 PM | #1321 | |
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Starling has been a non-garbage hitter for the first time in several years. There are no guarantees with him, other than he is stuck in the majors once they call him up. Soler is on pace for 30 HR and a .800+ OPS at a very cheap price. Why are dumping him again? |
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05-13-2019, 03:31 PM | #1322 |
The pizza king of kansas
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Soler? Don't get that.
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05-13-2019, 03:34 PM | #1323 |
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Lopez up, Newberry down, 40-man move forthcoming
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05-13-2019, 03:45 PM | #1324 |
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05-13-2019, 03:51 PM | #1325 |
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Oh FFS. If you are not going to start Lopez out early in the year, at least wait a *little* while longer to bring him up. 2nd to 3rd week of May is generally around the time of the Super 2 cutoff. If the Royals waited until the end of May or beginning of June he would be virtually guaranteed not to get the arbitration a year early.
Still possible he misses it, but if he doesn't, and you bring him up a week early and it costs the team a few million dollars, or if he's a star he leaves a year early, that's dumb. |
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05-13-2019, 03:51 PM | #1326 |
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05-13-2019, 03:55 PM | #1327 |
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.@codybtapp says on #TheDrive that Whit Merrifield signed off on a move to the outfield with Nicky Lopez coming up. "Part of the exhaustion for him was moving around the diamond. Now he'll primarily play in the outfield." #Royals
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05-13-2019, 03:56 PM | #1328 |
George Brett shit his pants
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Should have waited till June or July or whenever it extends service time but will be nice to see
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05-13-2019, 03:59 PM | #1329 |
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Flanagan:
We just had a conference call with Dayton Moore and he apologized for misleading the beatwriters: "It was not intentional. I didn't expect this to happen this fast. I anticipated end of May, early June, based on all the moving parts. But things change in a minute in this game." |
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05-13-2019, 04:05 PM | #1330 |
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If Bubba doesn't cut in the majors soon, he never will. This is year 7 or 8 for him. If he can't hit in the Bigs it's time to move on.
But bring him up now when overall expectations are low and play him every day. See if he hits. That's another thing with Ned, no one plays every day. He's constantly playing with the line up and there is no continuity for these young guys. Dozier, O'hearn, Whit , they're all constantly in and out of the lineup and moving all over the field. |
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05-13-2019, 04:05 PM | #1331 |
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05-13-2019, 04:10 PM | #1332 | |
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The only difference this makes is that he'll be a super 2 eligible player and thus get 4 cracks at the arb apple instead of the usual 3. It could cost him a few million bucks but again - this is exactly the kind of player who usually extends early and that sort of service time consideration vanishes anyway. |
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05-13-2019, 04:13 PM | #1333 | |
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05-13-2019, 04:27 PM | #1334 | |
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05-13-2019, 06:04 PM | #1335 |
Champs!
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All I ask for is that Owings get DFA'ed.
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