The Mark Teahen, Josh Fields, Chris Getz, Trade Link Roundup & Analysis
by royalsreview on Nov 7, 2009 3:00 AM EST
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First, my own unsolicited take on this trade.
The news that took eighteen hours or so to emerge was not tremendously good for the Royals. Sending the White Sox $2 million dollars changes the complexion of this trade significantly. Don't get me wrong, it's still a minor deal in the grand scheme of things, but the real benefit to the deal is now much more murkier. The financial savings is murkier, and now, for this trade to work out, either Josh Fields or Chris Getz has to contribute to the Royals during their pre-arb years. Yesterday, there were two clear benefits to the move, now there is only one.
I understand that many of you were frustrated with Teahen's stagnation, but he was basically a generic player. He wasn't great, but he also wasn't part of the problem. (His defensive numbers have been pretty bad the last two seasons, but I consider that more a function of his playing all over the diamond and sample size issues. Which may be too generous.) I understand Dayton's desire to move him, but I also understand Kenny Williams's desire to have him. And in reality, the Royals and White Sox split the difference money-wise, a fitting gesture for such a "meh" trade that neither side really seems too fired up about.
I'm not really sure how to feel about this trade. Fields' career with the Pale Hose was over, so I'm happy he gets to see a new organization. I don't like that Getz is gone. Teahen has been worth .4 WAR combined over the past two seasons and has seen his walk rate drop each year since 2007. If he can get back to drawing walks like he did in 2006 and 2007, he can be valuable again. -South Side Sox
So now, the stakes, though still small, are raised for Fields and Getz. The Royals could have just let Teahen walk after all, so in effect, they bought the rights to Getz and Fields for two million. Neither player is actually that young, but both are still green in service time years, which does matter. There's a school of thought that suggests these are the best types of guys to have, mid-to-late twenties guys who are still cheap, while there's another school of thought that might argue that this is yet another non-rebuilding move from Moore. Personally, I know myself well enough to admit that if the Royals had gotten back some as-yet-unknown barely legal rookie ball prospect, I'd probably have been more excited.
In this case, we'll just have to... wait for it... trust the process, trust the scouting. Apparently Getz is the key to the deal for the Royals, with Fields being just another low OBP slugger with no glove (also another Born Again) who may or may not be a part of anything. I don't know. The curious thing is that at the very least the Getz trade should set in motion either a reconfiguration of the infield or another trade, or two. We'll just have to wait and see.
Pointlessly premature verdict: Cash to Chicago pushes this from a slightly interesting quasi-prospect grab to a mostly innocuous head-scratcher, for now.
A massive roundup of links about the trade and other matters after the jump:
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Royals Top 60 Prospects: #37-31
by nwroyal on Nov 6, 2009 12:21 PM EST
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Does anyone else feel like the MLB Playoffs are starting to feel like the NBA playoffs? I don't mind all the games--but all the days off are painful. The offseason has officially now begun and with fresh rumors that there might be prospects involved in the Teahen trade. Let's just say if there are prospects involved from the Royals, they better be ones I've already written about (both for the sake of making a good trade and of not messing up my list). We finish up the bottom half of the Royals Top 60 Prospects. Next week I'll do #30-26 of the Royals Top 30.
Here's a review of the previous players listed:
60--Dylan Lindsay
59-Blaine Hardy
58-Barry Bowden
57-Rowdy Hardy
56-Matt Mitchell
55-Ryan Wood
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Conflicting Reports: Teahen Trade May or May Not Be Completed
by royalsreview on Nov 5, 2009 5:20 PM EST
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The Mark Teahen Era, one marked by so many trade rumors and so much uncertainty about Teahen's role on the team at any given moment, may be heading towards a fitting end: nobody seems to know what is going on.
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Royals trade Mark Teahen to White Sox for Chris Getz & Josh Fields
by nwroyal on Nov 5, 2009 10:23 AM EST
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Saw it on MLBTraderumors from this link to NY Daily News
- The Royals shed Teahen's probable ~$3-4 million-ish salary. Getz & Fields are both league minimum guys.
- Presumably Fields will compete for the DH job. He really shouldn't be in the field. Then again, would a Fields at 3rd, Gordon at 1st, scenario stun you?
- Not immediately sure what to make of Getz. His (small sample) defensive numbers aren't good. Maybe he's a depth guy, maybe they have a plan to use him. Too early to say. I know that he wasn't popular in the White Sox clubhouse after making some seemingly innocuous statements about the younger players on the team energizing the club.
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On the Field, the Yankees Are The Team of the Decade. Off It? The Red Sox.
by royalsreview on Nov 5, 2009 1:41 AM EST
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Jayson Stark wrote about this last week, including all of the relevant information: in the '00s, the Yankees have the most regular season wins, the most postseason wins, the most postseason series wins, most World Series appearances, and now, they have tied the Red Sox for the most World Series wins.
So are the Yankees the team of the '00s? They really should be, yet I'm hesitant to fully commit.
When I think back to this decade when I'm older, I think I'll mostly think of the Red Sox.
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Royals Links: Is a Zack Greinke Cy Young Imminent?
by royalsreview on Nov 3, 2009 12:15 AM EST
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Are we building up to a Zack Greinke Cy Young? Greinke picked up another award late last week, seemingly building momentum for his 2009 Cy Young campaign... only that the voting for the Cy took place weeks ago and is already decided.
Only time will tell.
- Players pick Greinke as American League’s top pitcher - KansasCity.com
- Royals Caribbean Report (11/2) | Kings of Kauffman | A Kansas City Royals Blog
- The Royal Tower: Young Players
- A Minor Review of ‘09: Kansas City Royals | FanGraphs Baseball
- Kansas City Royals – Kauffman Stadium " Stadium Journey Development Blog
- Did Brad Lidge Just Shape the Royals' Off-Season Plans? - Royals Authority
- Tangled Up In (Royal) Blue: Most Disappointing Royals Season? Part I: 1983
- Fire Dayton Moore: Quick Reminder: Dayton Moore is under contract through 2014
- Taking Out the Royal Blue Trash " KC Monarchy
- Big Donkeys: Big Donkeys Mailbag: the chickens have come home to roost
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Royals Top 60 Prospects: #46-38
by nwroyal on Oct 30, 2009 10:43 AM EDT
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The List marches on. We are starting to get to some very talented but very raw players in these rankings. We begin to see the trickles of the Royals increased investment in international scouting. The Royals have a lot of 16-19 year old players from all over world. If just one or two of them develops that will be huge. The Royals did just sign Adam Frost from the Independant League. It's really tough to know where to rank a guy like that. I would probably put him at around #45-50.
Next week we I will cover #37-30 and then we get to the Top 30 Prospects--which is where things start to get really interesting.
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Royals Attendance Analysis
by AxDxMx on Oct 29, 2009 10:44 PM EDT
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This analysis of the attendance patterns of the 2009 Kansas City Royals looks mainly at 2 things: Zack Greinke and promotions. I break down promotional giveaways and non-promo days, and the ZG starts are broken down as well into separate categories for promotional giveaways and non-promo starts. Attendance is also broken down by day, and then separated into promo and non-promo days. The averages for the days can be found at the bottom of the columns along with how many games there were in each category. Some interesting facts that can be gleaned from the chart follow the Google Spreadsheet that is embedded into the page.
Thanks to averagegatsby for inspiring me to look at this in a little more detail.
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