I thought the Boos motivated him?!?

Screw him. It’s been all about Jose Guillen since he signed; send to Arkansas. Make him suffer through the year, then trade him. He knew what he was in for when he signed with KC.

He might be a clubhouse problem. This is so totally unexpected!

My relationship is also in tatters with Hillman, and we are not on speaking terms.

Well I am sure the trade rumor mills will be going crazy after this story. I mean what MLB club would not be interested in a poor fielding outfielder with a .733 OPS only owed $24M over the next two years!

What horrible bad luck for Jose! Misunderstood again! What are the chances!

This partially explains why both Hillman and Guillen have acted so unbelievably pissy this year

is that his bitchfests have never been with the media - like some national innocence destoryers - but with his own teammates, managers, etc

I’d take Tex for the rest of the season…there’s always the chance we could resign him after the season. If not atleast we’d have money to throw at FA’s.
Dayton make it happen!

I’ve defended Guillen a lot on this site and I have never been more wrong about it. Fuck him. If he can’t play in KC then he can’t play anywhere. I just hope we can get something for him worth a damn. To everyone who saw this coming all along: I applaud you, I know there were lots of you.

“When Guillen signed with Kansas City he knew the team wouldn’t be a contender in 2008, but he was promised that moves would be made to build a winning team in 2009, said the source.”

Has he been told we’re not spending any money this winter?

Or is he just being irrational and emotional?

I wonder why he has played for more teams than seasons in the last couple years.

What can we get for him?

They came back from break and there was a shot on Guillen and Gordon in the dugout. They were both looking up and either towards the stands or the entrance to the clubhouse, I couldn’t tell which. But he mouthed something that we couldn’t hear so we DVR’s it and he said, “You can kiss my fucking ass”, Gordon just turned his head and looked back at the field….who was he talking to? Probably a fan, but wtf? He can’t control himself enough to ignore a fan at home heckling him?

maybe we’ll stop hearing crap about Guillen’s amazing leadership. That would be nice. This sure doesn’t seem like a very gritty thing to do. Thankfully, he’s making up for that by sucking it up and playing through an injury. (sarcasm)

Guillen needs to wake up and smell the BBQ…he isn’t going anywhere unless the Royals keep paying a lot of his contract, and he’s the guy who got himself into KC for such a big payday in the first place.

Okay, so maybe Guillen hasn’t changed a bit since he was with the Angels, after all. I guess the lattes in Seattle had a calming effect on the guy that KC can’t reproduce.

JQ and others who weren’t thrilled about this signing – well, I’m having a hard time arguing with you right now.

Fucking Baby… all he does is cry cry cry like a little baby but then he calls others babies

What a baby. I am sick of this malcontent, and I am sick of his inconsistant play. In the six years I have been following baseball religiously, I have never seen a Royal as blunt and confrontational as this bi-polar freak. I hope to the Gods in BASEBALL HEAVEN that this sonuvabitch is shipped out of here faster than a UPS package.

The easiest thing to do, given how blunt he apparently is, is to go right in and ask him. Stop speculating and get it right from the horse’s mouth.

Just asking, but what if they ask him and he and Hillman both deny the whole thing? I think we’ve established that we can take him at his word, so I doubt he’s going to lie. I mean, he just talked to (Dutton?) the other day, he would have had his chance to drop that little nugget on us then, but it’s coming from ESPN Deportes, which not sure how reliable they are.

I seriously wonder if he’s got a bi-polar thing going on, if he’s just hot-tempered, or what. It would seem that he would be committing career suicide if true. I just don’t know if he would get another chance after this.

but I don’t think he’s out there. I want to hear from someone in Oakland.

Guillen goes on the DL, the Royals tell him to go home and cool off a bit. He comes back in a month, plays, but keeps his mouth shut. The Royals trade him this winter after eating some of the contract for some marginal prospects and maybe a reclamation project like Jeff Franceour.

Is that if this is true, Guillen is now the second free agent (Olivo being the first) to imply he was misled in some way to sign here.

I don’t think Dayton intentionally misled anyone, but that does raise the flag that perhaps he has a communication problem with players. Maybe in trying to make the “sell” he oversells himself. I know some people that will stretch the truth to get people to like them. Its not malicious, its just a strong need to get people to like them (Al Gore is supposedly like this I’ve heard).

Keith Law has written about how being a GM is so much more than just drafting and trading guys. You have to manage an organization of people. And maybe these are just the kinks a new GM like Dayton has to work out as he learns the job. But I do worry about it being an issue, or at the very least a “perceived” issue around baseball that may make it hard to land free agents in the future.

The Royals can’t really trade him with their upcoming “Jose Guillen Baby Bottle” promotional give away coming up.

Back in January, the honeymoon period…. I don’t think the links will transfer.

Maybe it is an “urban legend” of sorts, but according to Jeff Kallman one scout wrote a single word on Guillen’s evaluation sheet in the character section. “asshole.”
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Here is a blog story from Distinguished Senators regarding Guillen’s behavior in Anaheim and Washington. Some fun reading. Guillen clearly has issues with the truth, accepting criticism, and, well, just other people who happen to exist in his vicinity.

From the Sporting News:

“Every time he goes to a new team, in the beginning you hear about what a great guy he is and a great teammate he is,” an executive in the American League says. “But then something always happens. At a certain point, that’s a real track record, in the same way that somebody’s career numbers are a track record.”
The Angels must have been nodding and smiling smugly when they heard about Guillen’s outburst in the dugout on July 8. After getting hit by a pitch from Pedro Martinez and teammate Esteban Loaiza failed to retaliate, Guillen got into a shouting argument with Loaiza and catcher Brian Schneider in the dugout. A similar incident in Anaheim last season was the start of Guillen’s troubles with the Angels.

“A lot of people say Jose Guillen is a cancer in the clubhouse,” Guillen says. “But I have never had a problem with one of my teammates. Never. Never. I’ve been misunderstood most of my career.”

Why did Guillen get into an on-field fight with former teammate Brendan Donnelly? “He was staring at me,” the Seattle Mariners’ outfielder told a reporter, after the big stink. “I don’t know what he was saying, but I don’t like whatever it was.”

One consistent comment from Guillen, he is misunderstood and has never acted in a way he thinks was uncalled for. He thinks he does not have a problem and that he has just gotten a bad rap from the media. “No one understands me.”

David Glass pays his full salary this year we trade him to get prospects

odds say “Yes”

But it’s a road game. He doesn’t like playing in KC, after all.

or both, because he played this one perfectly.

Seattle didn’t want to pay 9M to keep him in the offseason. Rumors around the league were that no one wanted to go double digits because of his character issues. He got the Royals, a “perennial non-contender” to give him 3/36 with the “promise” that they’d become competitive.

Now that he’s got a bigger contract than anyone else would’ve come anywhere close to—he starts to throw fits, demean the fans, yell at coaches, demand to be traded, or just engage in general douchebaggery. Basically make it so unbearable that the Royals are pressed into trading him to a contending team. Jose will even make it easy on the new team by deferring money.

So not only does he get to go to a contending team, but he also got the contract that no contending team was willing to give him.

GENIUS!

I really believe they would have to eat a Large Part of the contract. Unless Guillen is Al Pacino then almost anybody with 2 good eyes could realize he is hurt. What GM in baseball is gonna take on a 3 year deal with a hurt under .800 OPS OF who is almost GUARANTEED to be a problem in the next year or two. Plus what is the market for OF’ers right now? I don’t here a lot of speculation about anyone wanting a Outfielder.

People keep mentioning we only have two days to trade him but can’t you make trades after the deadline if Guillen clears waivers (and if he doesn’t… who cares?)?

Kotchman and pitcher to the Braves for :Teixeira

Teixeira is going to demand more money than the Angels will want to spend next year.

To Jose G….don’t let the door hit you in the ass. Take your attitude somewhere else. Maybe the Dodgers would trade Berroa back to us. ( smirk)

and either send him to the minors, or put him on the DL.

Prick for a prick.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/725943.html

"This is completely catching me by surprise," Guillen said. "This isn’t coming from me. Trey and I are fine right now, and I’ve never said I wanted out of Kansas City.

"This is the team that is paying me a lot of money, and this is where I want to be. I don’t know where all of this stuff is coming from. I hate to be put in this situation, and now I look like a bad guy again."

The story, written by Enrique Rojas, quotes an unidentified source as saying Guillen and Hillman are not on speaking terms. The source also said Guillen "would do anything he can in economic terms to ease his way out of Kansas City."

Guillen denied it all.

"Everyone has been calling me and asking me about that stuff," Guillen said. "I’ve known Enrique for a long time, and he knows my family. But I don’t know where he got this from. It was not from me.

"I want to know where he said it came from."

Guillen, 32, was a free agent last winter when he signed a three-year contract with the Royals for $36 million. He is batting .260 in 100 games but leads the club with 14 homers and 69 RBIs.

General manager Dayton Moore said neither Guillen, nor his agent Adam Katz, has ever expressed a desire to leave the Royals.

"This is puzzling to me because I tried to stay tuned in," Moore said. "Unless he’s telling me one thing and saying another, I’ve been under the understanding that he and Trey are getting along well.

"We’re happy that José is here and contributing to our team. Nobody has ever made me aware of any such desire to leave Kansas City."

Let’s send Guillen and Mahay to the Red Sox for Manny and Jed Lowrie. Straight up. It frees us from the from the Guillen burder and gets us a SS. It also brings us a superstar who will loaf for two months and be gone at the end of the year. We’ll collect a first round pick and a supplemental pick while being freed from Guillen and getting our future SS.