Naming the value

Now that he has the Cy award in his pocket, he has Yankee written all over him. Do any of you see him as a Royal after 2012? So, lets trade him now for 5 or 6 top of the line prospects. It is the only way we are going to get better.

If the Royals can improve now, they can keep Greinke long term, if they continue to suck wind, they won’t.

I guess Dayton is the only person that really knows what he can spend, trade for etc.

I wouldn’t object to trading him, as long as we get several top notch players in return.

At least one McCutcheon type

I would look at a combination.

Do these things before 12/15:
1) Sign Crisp,
2) Trade for or sign a LH starter,
3) Trade for Brad Hawpe
4) Sign a decent defensive Catcher

After 2/15:
5) make a Spring Training trade for OF help or make a late winter cheap FA signing.

CF – Crisp
LF – DeJesus
1B – Butler
RF – Hawpe
DH – Ka’aihue
3B – Gordon
C – new
2B – Getz
SS – Betancourt

Bench – B. Pena, Bloomquist, Fields, Betemit, Defensive OF specialist (or Meier)

I love his bat though.

Any one see the bargains over at the royals store?
Pure crystal Royals merch! Only $9,500 for the regulation size bat! Stocking stuffer?
“http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3829554”

Too hurt too often, never played more than ~85 games in a season and his offensive numbers are all over the board(probably due to small samples)

In terms of CF the first thing I’d do is try to sign Crisp to a 1 year incentive deal, and if that falls through, I’d trade for a CF, but not Granderson or Sizemore, I’d personally go after Ryan Sweeney. Hes younger(only 24), cheaper (still making league minimum), under club control for at least 3+ years, gets on base at a good clip (~.350) and may be just as good if not better than Sizemore or Granderson in the outfield(their 3 year UZR data is all very similar although sweeney is trending up, while the other two are trending down, and the fan scouting report supports this ranking all three about a 3.8 out of 5.)

The only downside to Sweeney is that we’d have to wrangle him from Billy Beane…not something I want to see Moore try to do.

There have been three occasions when the Royals have traded a pitcher who had won or would later win a Cy Young award.

The following is the complete list of players acquired by the Royals in those three trades, in which they also gave up Bill Pecota and Chris Jelic:

Ed Hearn, Rick Anderson, Mauro Gozzo, Gregg Jefferies, Keith Miller, Kevin McReynolds, Chris Stynes, David Sinnes, and Tony Medrano. Stynes (along with Jon Nunnally) later turned into Hector Carrasco and Scott Service; McReynolds turned into 324 bad PA from Vince Coleman, who then turned into Jim Converse.

Meanwhile, Cone won 167 games, put up a 115 ERA+, and made four All-Star rosters wearing other uniforms, while Saberhagen left KC and rolled up a 120 ERA+ elsewhere before retiring. I don’t think any of you even want to consider the Win Share discrepancy.

Which is a roundabout way of saying I think I’d just as soon keep him, because trading someone that good for a package just never seems to work out here.