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Royals-Endorsed Pointless Veteran Guessing Game: 2010 Edition

Even ignoring concerns about the future, it has become increasingly clear that the present Royals team would be better on the field with Guillen, Ankiel and Podsednik removed from the roster.   We have every reason to believe that, given adequate playing time, Gordon, Kila and Maier are capable of outperforming their aging counterparts on the field for the remainder of the season.  

The Royals, being the next-level thinkers that they are, realize that while cutting the aging scrubs and playing the younger guys right away would make the team better now and in the future, following the dictates of common sense would take away all of the fun guess-work for the fans.  To keep the fans intellectually invested, they've instead chosen to punt a few wins here, and delay the development of a few young players there to give us an opportunity to take part in a low*-stakes game of chance!  The name of the game is to guess how long each pointless veteran will remain on the roster blocking the path of a clearly superior younger player!

*zero

Please note that pointless veterans may be removed from the active roster by any number of means--trade, waived, outright release, or even season-ending injury.  The idea is just to guess when they will play their last game in a Royals uniform.  

Edit:  this post needed a poll.  The Royals must surely keep at least one of Guillen, Podsednik and Ankiel, or risk losing the critical intrigue of the Pointless Veteran Guessing Game.  Purging two from the roster, tho painful, would be fair game.  So the poll question will be:

Poll
When will the second of Guillen, Podsednik and Ankiel play their last game for the Royals?
June
0 votes
July
9 votes
August
11 votes
September
27 votes
Wait, are these poll answers suggesting 2010?
57 votes

104 votes | Poll has closed

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My bets:

Podsednik—July 21st (trade)
Guillen—August 10th (release)
Ankiel—August 26th (injury)

by kcdc1 on Jun 14, 2010 6:21 PM EDT reply actions  

Kendall?

by August…. 130 games played.

by Peterman700 on Jun 14, 2010 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wow

You’re optimistic about Ankiel’s time without an injury.

"You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes."

by MinnesotaRoyal on Jun 14, 2010 8:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

I would have called 2 months of Ankiel pessimistic

but that’s the fun of the Pointless Veteran Guessing Game. Good and bad converge, and all that’s left is signing Mike Lowell.

by kcdc1 on Jun 14, 2010 9:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hmmm...

this is a great idea, but I wonder if there should be categories for on the roster/starting/benched/part-time roles, stuff like that

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by Matt Klaassen on Jun 14, 2010 7:02 PM EDT reply actions  

haha, good one!

Pretending the Royals could give Guillen a bench/part-time role—classic!

by kcdc1 on Jun 14, 2010 9:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

Is it fair to bet that

Gordon will be gone before Guillen
KIla will be gone before Ankiel
Maier will be here and AAA for a few more years, but never as a starter (unless there is an injury) once Ankiel comes back.
Pods will play his last game in 3 years after Dayton decides we need more Pods and player options for him.

by AxDxMx on Jun 14, 2010 7:53 PM EDT reply actions  

I just cannot believe how stupidly

they are behaving with Gordon. Dayton probably will trade him for a couple of B prospects, or even less, selling as low as possible just because that’s the way Dayton does it. Then Gordon will proceed to have a solid average major league career, several years as a fair-hitting corner outfielder and several more platooning, while whatever Dayton gets for him will instantly turn to dog crap.

"The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey" - Unfortunate cricket commentator

by Juancho on Jun 17, 2010 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions  

I said September

comfortably after the trading deadline and probably after the go thru their full regression. Timing is everything.

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Jun 14, 2010 10:27 PM EDT reply actions  

do you mean

on this stint with the team?

I think dayton is planning to do a graffanino with a couple of them.

~~~if there is one thing i absolutely know for sure its... ummmm uhhh.... uhhh

nevermind

by who am i? on Jun 15, 2010 11:56 PM EDT reply actions  

Why Do A

T-Graf with these guys when the real thing is still out there?

I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.

by philofthenorth on Jun 16, 2010 4:05 AM EDT up reply actions  

trade them away

at the deadline for a HUGE batch of prospects then resign them and do it again? I could see this pattern going on for years.

~~~if there is one thing i absolutely know for sure its... ummmm uhhh.... uhhh

nevermind

by who am i? on Jun 16, 2010 9:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

@@@Pure Fucking Genius@@@

I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.

by philofthenorth on Jun 17, 2010 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'll play

Ankiel: July (injured)
Guillén: July (traded)
Podsednik: September, plays out season, finishes with more than 600 PA

"The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey" - Unfortunate cricket commentator

by Juancho on Jun 17, 2010 10:14 AM EDT reply actions  

ooh wow

Guillen traded in July. Agressive pick. I’m pretty optimistic generally and I still see a waive-and-trade in August to a team that loses its DH to injury being the best we could hope for.

by kcdc1 on Jun 17, 2010 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

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