Kansas City Royals Weekend Links: Butler & Hochevar May Face Arbitration, Bannister Heads to Japan

by Freneau on Jan 7, 2011 4:00 PM EST in Kansas City Royals News

As noted on the official site, five controlled Royals (Butler, Hochevar most notably) still need a new contract for 2011. It's unlikely that any actually get to arbitration, but it is a possibility. As usual, lots of prospect talk as well, good stuff from around the baseball world, and an unusually foreign minded Grab Bag section.

Royals:

Former Royals pitcher Bannister heads to Japan - KansasCity.com

Brian Bannister Says Sayonara | Kings of Kauffman | A Kansas City Royals Blog

Royals Prospects " Blog Archive " 9 Innings with Royals 1B Prospect Jake Kuebler

Storm Chasers named Best Sports Team of 2010 - Omaha Baseball 360

Royals Top 60 Prospects: #12-7 - Royals Review

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Grab Bag:

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WOOHOO! This is back!

It’s amazing the “Stormchasers” were the team of the year in 2010 seeing as they didn’t even play a game.

Haters gonna hate!
Go Royals, Chiefs and Blues!

by theroyalblues on Jan 7, 2011 11:45 PM EST reply actions

thanks for the comment

I thought this post had pulled off the rare shutout… brought back memories of the first two years of this blog

by Freneau on Jan 8, 2011 12:26 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs

The problem is just that

members of Royals Review are generally what society calls either/or “The Life of the Party” or “Party Animals”. Therefore it is tough to solicit a response on a Friday night. Of course this rule doesn’t apply for 9PM Grass Creek Battles.

Haters gonna hate!
Go Royals, Chiefs and Blues!

by theroyalblues on Jan 8, 2011 9:26 AM EST up reply actions

our minor league system is just that strong

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Jan 8, 2011 11:35 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

I have absolutely no idea what this Oldham thing is...

And Im not sure how bad that is.

Your 2010 Royals Review Fantasy Football Keeper League Champion

by averagegatsby on Jan 8, 2011 12:56 AM EST reply actions

unless you are REALLY into british politics, not bad at all

its just a very weird situation, sorta like if our midterm elections only involved 1 congressional seat

tons of coverage = not much actual story

by Freneau on Jan 8, 2011 2:03 AM EST up reply actions

Best of luck to our man Banny

Hope he’s back in MLB in 2012, preferably on one of our division rivals. Banny is bright and intellectually curious enough that he might learn Japanese and hang out there for years.* I could see non-tendering Davies. Keep Butler, Hoch, and Tejeda.

I want a starting outfield of Gordon, Blanco, and Frenchy, and will be incredibly pissed off if they jerk Gordon around some more. The SB nation fantasy site likes Gordon as a comeback player. Then again, they also like Yuni, so their credibility is doubtful. What to do with Betemit? If last year was no fluke, he deserves to play somewhere. I’d bench Frenchy and play Betemit in left, but that ain’t gonna happen.

You figure Dayton’s going to trade one or two of our fourth outfielders for a crappy starter, or sign a crappy free-agent starter?

*Japanese is much easier to learn than the other East Asian languages. Simple grammar, very few sounds, short syllables, no tones. Japanese culture, of course, is very weird for us, but Banny’s a humble, well-mannered guy and ought to get off on the right foot there.

"Crimes don't pay no one but the lawyers." --Last words of executed murderer Ernest Gaither Jr., 1947

by Juancho on Jan 8, 2011 10:21 AM EST reply actions

Oops, I forgot Cain.

Can we just shoot Milky and Frogger? Then we’d have an OF of Cain, Gordon, Blanco, and Betemit, with Mitch in the minors ready to step in. All four of those guys at least have a chance of being good, which Cabrera (obviously derived from the Spanish “cabra,” goat) and Francoeur do not.

"Crimes don't pay no one but the lawyers." --Last words of executed murderer Ernest Gaither Jr., 1947

by Juancho on Jan 8, 2011 10:46 AM EST up reply actions

Cabra era?

Era una cabra?

No. Yo soy una chupacabra!

Melky the goatsucker.

by AxDxMx on Jan 8, 2011 6:12 PM EST up reply actions

Royals Authority piece:

probably a five or ten year review of the number one systems and what happened to all of their Top 10 would be better

Didn’t Jeff Zimmerman do that? It seems odd that he’d say that without a link, yet suggest the very idea, which was recently posted here, would be great.

by 9il on Jan 8, 2011 1:30 PM EST reply actions

Also, I love that when I hit "PREVIEW"

“POST” becomes “POST!”

by 9il on Jan 8, 2011 1:31 PM EST up reply actions

NW Royal did it... and it was awesome

by Freneau on Jan 8, 2011 2:20 PM EST up reply actions

http://www.royalsreview.com/2010/10/29/1769332/what-does-having-the-1-farm-system-mean-conclusion

by Freneau on Jan 8, 2011 2:21 PM EST up reply actions

From a RAYS Blog on the Garza Trade

It takes a strong man not to care in the slightest what people think of him. Most of us, as much as we may not want to admit it, care what someone thinks of us. And most of us don’t have millions of people happily waiting to criticize our every decision. I think I can say with 100% certainty that Andrew Friedman does not care. And that’s a wonderful quality to have in a General Manager.

That can be taken two ways. I’m sure Dayton Moore doesn’t care what people think of him, but he continues to make moves that get him and the franchise laughed at. Friedman, on the other hand, continues to make moves he knows will not be popular with the general public, but will improve the team going forward – if not in the immediate future.

by DaytonSucks on Jan 8, 2011 5:20 PM EST reply actions