Legit bat. Legit defense. You’d expect the price to be reasonable, but who knows. A lot of Royals fans think there’s no way they trade him under any circumstances, but I’ve seen that rodeo before.
Sign a Navarez or Barnhart in FA or trade for Jansen. Let the young guys fight it out for the last OF job. Sign Brantley and a pitcher like Kluber. I could see something like Alvarez playing LF 70 games, Hensley playing LF 40-45 games and the young guys playing LF 45 or so games. If this doesn't workout make a trade at the deadline.
It would be much more likely to see Dubon and Meyers in the OF for about 40-50 games a piece the way the roster is now (if we added brantley).
Nope. He’s basically washed and not going to be catching a lot going forward. Power only DH. Hard pass.
They'll probably pass imo. Whitley can't stay healthy and might be a bust. Barber seems like he has health issues and would they want Lee? They have MJ Melendez who would be the reason why they would trade Perez. Apparently a couple of weeks ago, at least 1 team did call the Royals about Melendez. Not sure what the Royals said(untouchable or high asking price) but if the plan is to have Perez a Royal for his entire career any interest in Melendez? Between Murphy, Melendez, and Kirk, who's the better catcher and who costs the most/least?
He has always been terrible at framing. DRS has been -5 and -4 the last 2 years. His hitting fell of the cliff last year.
He hit .254 with 23 HRs and an OPS of .757. Had he been at Minute Maid, I wouldn’t be surprised if he would’ve hit 30 over the fence. The defensive stats don’t look bad. He’s actually close to Maldy.
They still have a number of options with players out there in free agency like Benintendi, Conforto, Gallo, Brantley, Myers, Pollock, Profar, Peralta and likely one or two others I am forgetting. So they can sign someone or trade for someone like McCarthy, Thomas, or even Kris Bryant (Rockies want to move him).
Yeah, wants a deal similar to what Verlander got last year. He wants a second year option that is completely a player option and at the same amount as the first year. So Boras basically wants 2/40 but worse than that because if he does well it’s a player option. If Conforto is washed, you are stuck paying him 20 million next year too. There are no guarantees that Conforto is the same hitter he was a few years ago.
