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Royals make two bad (cost-cutting moves) and one good move to finish offseason..
Remedy360:
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--- Quote from: Remedy360 on February 12, 2014, 11:52:56 PM ---I feel for anyone that's grown up following a team with a stingy owner like that. As awful and incompetent as my Mariners ownership has been at least they've shown that they're willing to spend money (and hopefully take more of a backseat moving forward). Teams like the A's and Rays amaze me with how well they can operate on such a poor budget. Shows you that there's obviously much more to the game than having a big payroll. With that said though, you wonder if teams like that can ever really make it to the next level consistently.
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Yeah.. it really is a pretty sad state of affairs when your owner tells the GM that he has gone over budget by spending 93 million and he has to cut two very very valuable players in Kottaras and especially Emilio Banafacio just to trim a measily 3 million dollars from the salary to get the payroll back down to 90 million. Our owner has set a 90 million dollar limit on the team payroll.
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If they're not willing to spend anymore, does that mean they're not going to even bother re-negotiating with Ervin Santana now that he's declined their qualifying offer? Wouldn't he be a far bigger loss than Banafacio and Kottaras?
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Santana's been one of the names that people here have been talking about a lot as a mid-back of the rotation guy, so it seems like a forgone conclusion on the national scale (and now what Inifinte's saying) that he's leaving.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Remedy360 on February 13, 2014, 02:30:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: Infinite on February 13, 2014, 01:01:35 AM ---
--- Quote from: Remedy360 on February 12, 2014, 11:52:56 PM ---I feel for anyone that's grown up following a team with a stingy owner like that. As awful and incompetent as my Mariners ownership has been at least they've shown that they're willing to spend money (and hopefully take more of a backseat moving forward). Teams like the A's and Rays amaze me with how well they can operate on such a poor budget. Shows you that there's obviously much more to the game than having a big payroll. With that said though, you wonder if teams like that can ever really make it to the next level consistently.
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Yeah.. it really is a pretty sad state of affairs when your owner tells the GM that he has gone over budget by spending 93 million and he has to cut two very very valuable players in Kottaras and especially Emilio Banafacio just to trim a measily 3 million dollars from the salary to get the payroll back down to 90 million. Our owner has set a 90 million dollar limit on the team payroll.
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Yeah, as a huge sports fan I would always follow my home team, but it's a really hard sell for casual fans when a GM like that talks about a "spending limit" and cuts valuable players in the process. I'm guessing there's a pretty big sense of apathy among the fan base?
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Actually everyone is extremely excited around here about the Royals. The reason why is last year was the best season the Royals have had in 20 years! 19 of the last 20 years the Royals had finished below .500 and a couple of those years we posted 100 losses. 90 million is actually a payroll increase compared to previous years (thanks to TV contracts that every MLB team is benefiting from, I think every team got like 17 mill).
The Royals went out and signed Infante so everyone thinks they will be better than last year because of Infante, Aoki, and the continued progress of our youngsters like Hosmer, Perez, Duffy, and Yardano Ventura.
The cuts in payroll came at the very end of the offseason and they only hurt our depth so the casual fans aren't going to make much noise about it.... but as soon as Infante goes on the DL and you got some bumb from the minors hitting .200 and making errors in the field with no speed on the basepaths, or God forbid Perez goes on the DL, then Apathy will certainly set in.
Hack Wilson - real:
you guys should have went after Tanaka
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Infinite African Westcoastin 2014 on February 12, 2014, 11:13:33 PM ---
Even worse than cutting our back-up catcher was THEY FUCKIN CUT EMILIO BANAFACIO!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS SUCKS!!!!!!! Banafacio was such an exciting player, probably the fastest guy in the whole league. HE COULD PLAY ANY NON-BATTERY POSITION!! This means if any player went on the DL he could of filled in well, or been an excellent pinch-runner off the bench. He played great for the Royals after they picked him up in the second half last year. Whichever team picks this guy up is really gonna get a huge bargain. Just watch, this guy will crack the starting lineup for some team before too long.
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Another post proving my wisdom and foresight in regards to Emilio Banafacio. He would've been a less expensive and significant upgrade at second base over Infante this year.
Hack Wilson - real:
if they had Emilio Banafacio they would have had just enough power to win the world series
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