Royals and Their Baseball-Reference.com Sponsors

by Jeff Zimmerman on Apr 28, 2011 10:19 AM EDT

Every player at baseball-reference can have their page sponsored by someone for a donation to the website. Some are classics like this one for Marvin Benard, but most players aren't sponsored. Here is a list of which current Royals players are sponsored and for those that aren't sponsored, the amount it would take to sponsor them.

Players not sponsored

Jeff Francoeur $170

Jeff Francis $160

Alcides Escobar $120

Joakim Soria $100

Alex Gordon $90

Kila Ka'aihue $85

Bruce Chen $70

Jeremy Jeffress $65

Luke Hochevar $55

Mike Aviles $50

Matt Treanor $40

Louis Coleman $35

Chris Getz $25

Nathan Adcock $25

Kanekoa Texeira $20

I don't really get the valuation here. How is Soria worth less then Francis and Escobar. By far the best deal IMO would be Adock for $25. TWSS.

Billy Butler

Patrick, Nathan & Nicholas Lindeman

Looks to be someone that knows Billy. How sweet.

Sean O'Sullivan

Kevin Charity of www.kevincharity.blogspot.com

Check out my blog for all things sports, pop culture and music. Showing my boy O'Sullivan some love! www.kevincharity.blogspot.com

A friend sponsor's SOS. I think it is cool that he has a friend.

Melky Cabrera

Sim Dynasty - home of Sim Baseball

Free online multiplayer simulated baseball. Make all the decisions real MLB owners, GMs, and Managers make. Draft a fictitious franchise, set your lineup, groom prospects, and guide your team for 20+ seasons. It's the next generation of fantasy baseball!

Can't figure this one out. Are they trying not to get any traffic to their website?

Mitch Maier

RoyalsTalk

The place to talk Royals baseball featuring forums and user blogs

Website no longer exists.

Aaron Crow

Kings of Kauffman

Kings of Kauffman features game recaps, analysis, commentary and player profiles regarding the Kansas City Royals and their minor league affiliates.

The Kings are always putting out some good content. After checking them out this morning, they seemed to be as bummed as I am about the current losing streak.

Blake Wood, Rob Tejeda, Wilson Betemit, Brayan Pena

Mark M. Ferguson, Attorney at Law, LLC

Criminal/DWI/Traffic/Personal Injury Attorneys in KCMO – 816-221-1750 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 816-221-1750 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Four Royals, one lawyer. I wonder if Brian McRae called him?

Jarrod Dyson

The Bando

You 'bout to see me take it, About to see me bling, All you m____________ the Kansas City King

I think the Bando and Wil(l) should have a poetry read off. Loser must listen to 10 minutes of Frank White giggles.

Tim Collins

A Giant believer

Epic duel: Tim Collins pitching to David Eckstein...

I figured they could do a little better with a quote for Collins, but it will have to do.

Kyle Davies

Puckett's Pond

Puckett's Pond is the Minnesota Twins site of the FanSided.com Sports Network. For daily (on average) Twins related content, stop by the Pond and stay a while.

The pretty much shows how much Davies sucks when another team sponsor his page.

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Sponsor price is directly related to page popularity

That doesn’t explain why Francis and Escobar are more popular than Soria, but perhaps it’s weighted to the past year and they made news more recently? (Escobar with a big-name trade, Francis as a free agent, and Soria is just “oh that Royals closer guy”)

Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!

by mazoboom on Apr 28, 2011 10:48 AM EDT reply actions

Maybe b/c there are so many Escobars?

No, really:
Alcides Escobar 2008-2011, minors
Alcides Escobar
Alex Escobar 2001-2006, minors
Alexander Jose Escobar
Angel Escobar 1988, minors
Angel Ruben (Rivas) Escobar
Jose Escobar 1991, minors
Jose Elias (Sanchez) Escobar
Kelvim Escobar 1997-2009, minors
Kelvim Jose (Bolivar) Escobar
Yunel Escobar 2007-2011, minors
Yunel Escobar
Carlos Martinez 1988-1995, minors
Carlos Alberto Escobar Martinez
Luis Sanchez 1981-1985, minors
Luis Mercedes Escoba Sanchez

Minor Leaguers
Player Years Last Franch
??? Escobar 1927
Carlos Escobar
Danny Escobar 1935-1947 NYY
Eduardo Escobar 2006-2011 CHW
Edul Escobar 2008-2010 KCR
Edwin Escobar 2009-2011 SFG
Gustavo Escobar 1998-2005 COL
John Escobar 1988-1993 PHI
Jorge Escobar 1955-1956 ATL
Joseph Escobar 1940
Juan Escobar 1962
Juan Escobar 1968-1969 PHI
Leonel Escobar 2008-2010 BOS
Luis Escobar 2000-2004 KCR
Reidy Escobar 2007-2009 ATL
Rene Escobar
Rodrigo Escobar 2002-2007 HOU
Ruben Escobar 1998-1999 CLE
Rudy Escobar 1950-1957 ATL
Santiago Escobar 1983-1988 PIT
Escobar Escobio 1953

by SagehenMacGyver47 on Apr 28, 2011 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions

ah, found it

The prices are roughly set to match an advertising rate of $1.25 per 1,000 page views with a minimum charge of $5.

Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!

by mazoboom on Apr 28, 2011 10:50 AM EDT reply actions

Thanks for the information.

Who is the Frenchy fans around here?

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by Jeff Zimmerman on Apr 28, 2011 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions

So it's quite obvious that we've driven the price of Francouer up by looking at stats

and bitching about him being signed to play here.

by AxDxMx on Apr 28, 2011 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions

bingo

so you can either be really good, or really crappy, and have a high price

for when I'm too lazy to come here, http://twitter.com/AtTheWall

by AtTheWall on Apr 28, 2011 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions

This raises a fun experiment...

If we could all visit some random, crappy player (let’s call him Kendall, for instance) and have everyone on this site go to that page on a daily basis. I wonder if we could artificially raise the value of that page to the top 10 most expensive pages.

It would be fun to see the power of this site and something to brag about.

"I DARE you to make less sense."

by dejackso on Apr 28, 2011 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Do they notice if the same person hits refresh 400 times a day?

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.

by KeepItCopacetic on Apr 28, 2011 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Usually, no.

They usually have a different stat for visits and for pages.

"I DARE you to make less sense."

by dejackso on Apr 28, 2011 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Well, Kendall's page may not have great visit numbers

But it’s clearly got great visit control. And that’s what matters.

by Sweep_the_Leg on Apr 28, 2011 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

Where are you seeing this sponsor information?

Unless I am just missing something obvious, I don’t see anything on the Marvin Benard page you linked, and when I looked at the Betemit page, I also did not see anything about Mark Ferguson (even did a ctrl+F search on the page for Ferguson). Where do you see the sponsor info?

by KC Gunner on Apr 28, 2011 10:56 AM EDT reply actions

Below the numbers in circles, above the Player News

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by Jeff Zimmerman on Apr 28, 2011 10:58 AM EDT up reply actions

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by Jeff Zimmerman on Apr 28, 2011 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions

Weird

That definitely does not show up in Firefox 4

by KC Gunner on Apr 28, 2011 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions

I see it in IE though

by KC Gunner on Apr 28, 2011 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions

I think maybe you have an adblocking extension

It shows up for me in FF 4

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by sfeldkamp on Apr 28, 2011 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions

I do have an adblocking extension in FF4

that must be it

by KC Gunner on Apr 28, 2011 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Its in Yellow

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Apr 28, 2011 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions

I've sponsored a few in the past

I think Rico Rossy and Rusty Meachem and the ’88 Royals.

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Apr 28, 2011 11:00 AM EDT reply actions

If I had money to blow... maybe. But alas, I don't.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.

by KeepItCopacetic on Apr 28, 2011 11:17 AM EDT reply actions

this reminds me...

I used Baseball Almanac for a while, and the owner there does the same thing. I was an A’s fan at the time and right before Rickey Henderson’s HOF induction I noticed that his page was available, and the price would go up after the induction. Anyhow, I sent the guy my money, but with the caveat that I would like to change the cover picture to one of him in an A’s uniform. After a few emails, it was agreed, and I sent payment.

So, I find an autographed card of Henderson and the owner of the site gets all weird about it. I ended up getting a refund because I was certainly going to have nothing to do with a page that uses Yankee’s imagery of any sort. Yuck. The site sucks anyway.

Nick Swisher is handsome.

by ChrisCEIT on Apr 28, 2011 1:43 PM EDT reply actions

Nice to know O'Sully is a normal human being

I’ve never known any pro ballplayers, but I used to have a couple of friends who were pro water polo players over here. Real nice guys, California college dudes. One of them was a starter on the American Olympic team in 2000. The other one’s a coach at a California college now.

Hanging out with those guys was amazing. Women all over the place. They were tall, good-looking, and well-dressed, with some cash to spend, and they were total babe magnets. I never took advantage of the leavings because I’m happily married and not that kind of guy, but the leavings were not undesireable.

There’s something about a jock that draws the women. I guess it’s self-confidence, because they had it in spades. Maybe, for women who are normally competed for, it’s the thrill of competition with one another. Maybe chicks just get all dewy in the presence of large biceps.

Yo confío en Jack.

by Juancho on Apr 28, 2011 4:51 PM EDT reply actions