It's fun listening to all the sour fans on this deal. "Royals overpaid!" "He followed the money."
Almost every team has been overpaying free agents year after year while we sit on our thumbs. The Royals finally outbid a few clubs for a 28 year old with a lot of potential. Whatever go talk about how the Cubs are overpaying anyone that breaths!
I'd also like to add that the Royals WASTED way more money last year on useless players then we are paying both Meche and Dotes. (IE: Redman, Elarton, Sanders, Dougie M)
Also here is a fun quote in the Toronto Star by Blue Jays GM, J.P. Ricciardi.
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“No knock against the kid, but we might’ve dodged a bullet there,” said Jays’ general manager J.P. Ricciardi, who headed home from the winter meetings this morning after striking out on both of the team’s major — if not only — free-agent targets.
“When you’re talking to a guy about coming to a place that’s very close to winning and he’s telling you how important it is to him — and then he chooses a place like that .... that might’ve been an eye-opener for us. We’re trying to compete with the Yankees and Red Sox, so we need guys who want to compete against those guys.”
"And then he chooses a place like that"
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What a class act.