Jermaine Dye

Better than our DH candidates, but I don’t think he’s worth the money is a losing year. He may fall off the table next year.

…I like Dye, and hate seeing him unsigned because he seems like one of the good guys in the game, but he’s a good example of diminishing returns if you sign him for $1.5M – and he’s a good example of a sunk cost for anything than that.

even if the Royals eat half of his salary. As was pointed out, they’d just sign Dye. The only option is to put him on waivers, wait until no one claims him, then release him.

As Phil said, there is absolutely no reason to spend that kind of money on a DH in a year where, best case scenario, he would take the Royals from, say, 74 wins to 76.

The only logical option is to dump Guillen and truly see what you’ve got in Kila. Logic being involved (along with the accompanying swallowing of pride and salary), Dayton isn’t going with that option.

He’s still a decent hitter, but not a great one. And he’s horrendous in the OF. His range is long gone. So he’d make for a poor OFer overall (approx. 1.2 WAR, which only minimally better than Ankiel, Pods or Maier). And his value doesn’t change much if you move him to DH because of the positional adjustment.

So Dye isn’t worth 2/13. And I don’t see any reason to give him a two year guaranteed commitment for any amount of money. The Royals definitely need to get rid of Guillen and give those at bats to Callaspo, Kila or someone else in the organization. But they certainly shouldn’t replace one over the hill, overpaid player with another.

but older and with a lesser bat

that think Dye is done-or close to it. A tremendous liability in the field at this point in his career, he is also losing his ability to be positive with the bat.