So I took over a month off from writing about sports and life and just pretty much anything that pops up in my brain. From the looks of when I last posted it appeared that I took time off to celebrate the Kansas National Basketball Championship.
Breaks over...
It is fun to watch the Kansas City Royals play some ball lately. Joakim Soria is now locked up for quite some time in what appears to be a steal of a get for the Management and Ownership. 4 years at 32 million dollars, that could get much higher. From Royals Review, they listed Soria's contract as follows;
2009 $4.5M
2010 $6.5M
2011 $10M
2012 $11M
2013 $12M club option
2014 $14M club option
2015 $15M club option
Soria is a dominant pitcher who most likely will not have his arm fall off. He has quality stuff that can just leave batters looking stupid.
Next the Royals have to sign Alex Gordon and Zach Greinke to long term deals. Greinke, I feel is a 5 year/ 60 million dollar pitcher. He is by far the best player on the team and they need to sign him now before it is to late. Waiting just forces the price to skyrocket. Gordon, on the other hand is not the George Brett calibur phenom (yet) that fans had hoped. Still just in year two he is showing he is the best athlete the Royals have. Lock up Greinke and Gordon now and show fans you are with this team for the long term.
Kansas City sports are getting better. The Chiefs had an amazing draft. Easily the best one since Carl Peterson drafted Derrick Thomas with the 4th pick in the NFL Draft early in his multi-title role (general manager/president/ceo). The Royals will be flirting with a .500 record all year long. Good things will happen. The Owners, Management, and Players just need to keep working and getting better day to day. We as fans can not do anything but just to not give up and keep believing. Hope is all we can cling to right now.
Keep the faith!
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2 comments:
One, they shouldn't have signed Soria to so much so early, his arm still hasn't proven that it can last a decent amount of time, remember MacDougal? Second, Guillen is the Royals best hitter, not Gordon. Third, welcome back!
I disagree. Soria and MacDougal are way two different pitchers. Soria has more than proven he has more than one pitch and throws all of them very solid. MacDougal was a fastball/curveball pitcher that made it to the All-Star break and fell apart because batters figured out what he was throwing at them. They are not doing that with Soria. He has been solid. It is a great move they paid him and got him for as cheap as they did.
As for Gordon, he is our future. So what if Guillen is our RBI leader and has 6 home runs. He is not what the Royals are about. The Royals are in a total rebuild mode. Sign Gordon, sign Greinke and then the Ownership might actually show Kansas City Royals fans that they are for real when it comes to making this team legitimate.
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