this month (save Greinke/Soria/Butler/Gordon).

Doesn’t August work like this…

Royals place player Gil Meche on waivers (for example). If nobody claims him, then he can be traded up until Aug. 31. If someone DOES claim him, the Royals then have the option of keeping him, or allowing the claiming team to take Gil meche & his contract…

Why take a run @ Dunn?

Dunn’s a great hitter.

He’s obviously much bertter suited for the AL, where he might still be an above average player assuming he takes to DHing okay. He’s probably overpaid for next year at $12M, and then he’d be gone… I guess the Royals could try to get WAS to take a chunk of his salary, then trade him after enjoying the homers and walks for the first half of the season. It would be fun, but with the Royals not contending until probably 2012, it doesn’t really fit.

He’d be good, but I’m not sure his game is ideally suited for the K, which is pretty much neutral overall, but depresses HR rates while increasing hit rates on balls in play — the opposite of Dunn’s TTO approach.

To give up much of anything for Dunn under these circumstances, but he was everybody’s here’s favorite free agent last year. Hoagy for Dunn, however, would be perfect. I’s throw in Maday and Sporqie, too.

Maybe something simple….like the following:

Dunn Royal HR = (3-Year Avg) * 0.55
Dunn Royal RBI = (3-Year Avg) * 0.45
Dunn Royal SO = (3-Year Avg) * 1.4
Dunn Royal OBP = (3-Year Avg) * An irrelevency coefficient (i)
Dunn Royal Salary = (True Worth) + 3,500,000

Just some rough numbers, but that may be helpful to define how someone like Dunn would actually perform in KC. I’m thinking a full season line of Dunn in KC would look like the following:

HR = 25
RBI = 90
BA = .215
OBP = .350
SLG = .475
OPS = .825
Salary = $15,500,000

Time to take for those on Royals Review to turn on him………..priceless.

15. Willy Taveras, Reds outfielder: But with .279 on-base percentage, who’d want him?

I know that is supposed to be a rhetorical question, but……..

• Two coveted free agents this winter could be Rockies GM Dan O’Dowd and Dodgers GM Ned Colletti. Colletti’s contract calls for a mutual option, meaning if he declines, he’s free. Both have done an excellent job this year.