Brian Andersen? (sp?)

Anderson regressed in 2004, pitching poorly throughout the season. His record was 6–12 with a career high 5.64 ERA in 166 innings.

This post if full of contradictions. 1 guy pans out and they mortgaged the future of the team?

Would have been a great contract if MLB didn't juice the ball. Ian Kennedy is as fly ball pitcher as there is. On paper, it was a smart signing. MLB ****ed us is what happened.

Flags fly forever.

I'll take one ring over all the successful seasons the Indians have had over the past 2-3 decades.

We'll see how Brandon Finnegan comes back from from his shoulder injury. But the Royals would have been better off in 2018 with Manaea in the rotation, Finnegan either in the rotation or the bullpen and John Lamb still in the system and potentially at the MLB level.

It was still a good trade despite what the team is now without them.

That's also not to mention Ventura dying which there was no way to plan for.

Getting caught with a fly ball heavy staff when MLB juiced the ball at the same time as everyone started adjusting his swing for additional loft was a pretty brutal confluence of events.

It definitely hurt Kennedy, and he’s not the only one.


Moore hasn’t been as good in the draft as he needs to be to keep waves rolling in to KC, but he also has enough success to be considered better than “horrible.” He has performed well with large bonus pools, or when he has the flexibility to overpay slot for some key players. That’s the situation this year.

They also have done very well in the past 2 drafts. Pratto, Melendez, Lee, Tillo, Zuber, Gigliotti, Lopez, etc.

Trading Danny Duffy is a lot harder in real life than in MlB the Show. If they had found a package that was valuable enough to move him, they would have. Offers were lackluster for him over the winter.

When you trade an established player with years of control left at reasonable prices, you have to get enough value back to mitigate the risk of giving them up.

Jose Martinez was a mistake.

Gordon and Kennedy are mistakes in hindsight, though the Kennedy deal was questioned widely when it happened. Gordon’s was not.

Both of those were attempts to maximize contention window in 16 and 17. Kennedy paid off expectations in 16, though the rest of the team did not.

It’s easy to critique the Gordon deal in hindsight but intellectually dishonest to act like it looked like a bad deal when completed.

And as for deadline returns ... they’ll get some useful pieces but will need more of a scouting win type to really make it pay off.

Teams just don’t pay for rentals like they used to. Prospects are too valued now. Herrera should fetch a fringe 100 prospect type. That can boom into much more, quickly.

Seuly Matias is a great example of that type of guy. He made one top 100 coming into this year and is almost assuredly going to be on all of them next time around.

8 days a week

For 2.5 seasons the royals played the best ball of any team in baseball

Yeah, they couldn’t have done that without Kennedy.

I bet this weekend we start seeing the Blue Spring's Yankees fans once again.

By how much will the Yanks outscore the Royals this weekend? 10? 15? 20? 25?

I put the over/under on Yankee home runs this weekend at 10.5.

I haven't been this embarrassed by a team since I was a fan of the Chiefs.

You spelled Johnson County wrong.