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"Royals Today: 5/28/11"

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Blogger Jim M said...

Last sentence needs revision... perhaps you haven't gotten to the great stuff, but once again--top-notch... I was also wondering, "WTF?!?>!" how did we get such a crazy team?

May 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM

Blogger Harry said...

I agree that the Royals might be jumping the gun by DFA-ing Tejeda, but I don't think their offseason decision to tender him was a bad one.

Tejeda went on the DL last summer, and when he came back in September, it was clear he wasn't 100%. I'd guess that probably killed his trade value. That being the case, tendering him (as a calculated gamble that his arm would recover) doesn't seem like that bad a decision - especially if the Royals already knew they were going to go with a bullpen light on experience.

May 28, 2011 at 4:49 PM

Blogger jml2424 said...

Can you get a pick for DeJesus if you decline his option and don't offer him arbitration?

May 28, 2011 at 5:45 PM

Blogger Rany said...

You'd have to offer him arbitration - but there was little reason he'd accept, as he was coming off his best year and it was in his interests to get a multi-year contract.

May 28, 2011 at 5:55 PM

Blogger Dan said...

Your commentary always hits home with me. Please keep up the good work, it is appreciated.

May 28, 2011 at 7:25 PM

Blogger John said...

Paulino has been named the starter against the Angels on Wednesday. I guess he won't be in the bullpen after all.

May 28, 2011 at 8:21 PM

Blogger John said...

Oh, and that's according to Dick Kaegel.

May 28, 2011 at 8:22 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I might be mistaken, I often am, but I think Moore DFA'd Tejeda as a way to open up the 40 man spot without losing anybody.

The assumption is that because of Tejeda's salary and because he appears injured that he will not be claimed and he will report to Omaha. If he is claimed then the Royals save some money on an injured player.

If either Chavez of Pucetas was DFA'd they would surely be claimed. Not necessarily much of a loss, but by using Tejeda nothing is lost.

I don't know if Paulino is a good pick up or not, but I would much rather see Teaford or Crow or Montgomery be given a shot at starting.

Of course I would also bring up Cain and Moustakas and Gio today. As a fan I would rather see them play than Cabrera, Getz and Betemit.

May 28, 2011 at 8:57 PM

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May 29, 2011 at 1:07 AM

Blogger Page said...

Rany, I disagree with your analysis of Mazzaro based on the May 16th game. I was at that game and it was embarrassing watching the Royals feed him to the wolves after pulling Davies. So Adcock comes in and pitches fairly well. But the team replaces him with Mazzaro. I don't know why they pulled Adock but it gave the impression the team was prepared to utilize the bullpen.

Mazzaro, who had pitched well previously, wasn't going to last long; mostly because he couldn't find the strike zone. So with Adock, who pitched well and was pulled, and Davies, who pitch horribly and was pulled, as references I thought Mazzaro wasn’t going to last long. He did.

The scene was as bad as Meche’s infamous July 1st outing. To paraphrase your article, Hillman and Swartz are gone but McClure remains and I’m inclined to believe the Mazzaro incident is another sign of McClure’s weakness; unless the staff took Moore’s comment that Mazzaro only needs innings far too seriously.

No one judges Meche’s career on that disaster and no one should judge Mazzaro’s career on that disaster; born of, what I would guess was, an apparent desire to avoid taxing the rest of the bullpen in a game that Royal management had given up on.

The danger, of course, is whereas Meche had a career reputation to fall back on, because of Mazzaro’s limited career stats he WILL be judged by that disaster. Will Mazzaro be a major league level pitcher? I have no idea. But that night he had the misfortune of being a call up, unlike big contract Davies, who was struggling, was not relieved and, instead, was thrown under the bus. That night a supposedly rookie nurturing team did its best to create a real life Morris Buttermaker and no player’s talents should be judged as a result of such a management decision.

May 29, 2011 at 1:09 AM

Blogger Ryan said...

I try to keep up with the Royals as much as I can, but I don't understand the McClure bashing. He can't coach talent into pitchers. If I remember correctly, he's helped develop an extra pitch or two for quite a few pitchers that have helped turn their careers around.

He's not the one bringing sub-standard arms on to the major league roster.

May 29, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Blogger THH said...

Tejeda is a guy that baseball people just don't like. The Phillies strangely traded him to the Rangers when he appeared to be an up-and-coming starter.

He shined for a time with the Rangers but backtracked. They never really gave him a try as a reliever and then traded him for Dustin Nippert.

Now, he shows flashes of brilliance with the Royals and they dump him.

Guys with as much talent as Tejada always seems to piss baseball people off when they don't live up to expectations. They get labeled as undisciplined and lacking guts and they send them packing.

He is completely unpredictable and inexplicably inconsistent so I can't blame them for giving up on him.

May 29, 2011 at 1:00 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tejeda dumping doesnt make sense. Paulino has good stuff, but his body of work is not as impressive as Tejeda. I always thought we should have tried him out as a starter, rather than throw Davies out there every single day with the same meager results.

May 29, 2011 at 3:43 PM

Blogger Timothy said...

I never understood why no team would give Tejeda a shot as a starter. He had one bad year, but otherwise was an above average pitcher, nearly in the #2 range. Why would teams just seemingly randomly give up on a guy like that?
For all our talk about how smart baseball GM's can be, they can also be really obfuscatingly stupid at times.

May 29, 2011 at 11:41 PM

Blogger KHAZAD said...

It seems like a big gamble to me. To simply assume that another team will not spend $800,000 or so to pick up a big league reliever with a track record of success, as well as a brief history of success in a starter's role. Maybe no one will pick him up and he accepts assignment to Omaha.

But this gamble, if that's what it is, is completely unnecessary. Jesse freakin' Chavez is on our 40 man roster and if someone else claimed him after being exposed, what would we lose? Chavez has almost no chance of making it back to the big league club, and little chance of being a viable MLB pitcher. He is Victor Marte lite, and if he shows up on the team again, it would be an indicator of far bigger problems. The Royals have several relievers on the team who can be shuttled back and forth as many times as they would like (Rany mentioned Wood and Holland) I am OK with taking a chance on Paulino, but not at this price.

@Ryanpatrickdolan-Bob Mcclure has presided over the pitching staff for 5+ seasons now, under 3 different managers. The team has an ERA+ of about 91 in that time. He has had as many pitchers regress or not progress as he has had successes (Probably more). He has basically run the pitching staff, but when anything bad happens, it is usually blamed on the manager (e.g. the handling of Meche's initial injury and his pitch counts in 2009.). When anything good happens, McClure gets the credit. If a young pitcher develops, it is his doing. If the pitcher does not develop or live up to his billing, it is because he is working with subpar talent.

I call him Teflon Bob.

May 30, 2011 at 6:08 PM

Blogger Walter said...

tejada is not currently 100%. he and paulino have similar profiles and career minor league stats... and paulino is healthy and hitting 95mph on the gun. it seems

seems like a logical pick up to me. in fact, i would like to applaud dayton moore for not allowing sunk costs to prohibit him from making a reasonable move.

June 1, 2011 at 10:46 PM

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