The Royals have utilized the opportunity of today’s non-tender deadline to drop four players from their MLB roster, MLB.com’s Jeffrey Flanagan reported on Twitter and the team has now announced. Outfielder Bubba Starling is the most recognizable name who’ll be cut loose; he’s joined by righties Jason Adam and Andres Machado along with first baseman Samir Duenez.
Notably, per Flanagan, the club anticipates reaching new, minor-league pacts with all four players in short order. They’ll technically become free agents, and can certainly explore interest with other organizations if they wish, but it seems the hope is to retain this group while opening 40-man space.
Starling, the fifth overall pick in the 2011 draft, has failed to develop as hoped and has also faced injury setbacks. Adam coughed up nine home runs and 22 earned in his first 32 1/3 MLB frames in 2018, but did manage to rack up 37 strikeouts. There was a much briefer, two-appearance major-league debut for Machado, but he spent most of the 2018 season turning in marginal numbers in the upper minors. Duenez hit well at Double-A last year, with a .282/.357/.463 slash.
“Royals Talked To Machado”
I’m confused where in the article does it say this
I think it was a joke about Andres Machado
The inmates are running the asylum over there in K.C.
Picking Bubba Starling over Rendon, Lindor, Baez and Springer lol my god Dayton Moore has had some clunkers
He got lucky and Royals fans think of him as some sort of god. Royals had no legitmate starting pitching and rode that 2015 run with pure luck. Should have been eliminated in the ALDS if the Astros could actually play simple defense for one inning.
Not nice to bring up bad memories.
You cant get lucky & win the WS. Further more, they were a great team in 2014 as well. Ask any Giants fan, they were by far the most formidable foe Giants faced while winning 3 WS. So their starting pitching wasnt great… they had the 3-headed monster, plus amazing defense, incredible team speed, and heart. They were very legit and deserving of the 2015 WS trophy.
This. All day. You can’t make it to the world series back-to-back by “luck” and if you think you can, you don’t watch a lot of baseball. I do, however, believe DM got lucky with a few of those trades that set them up for ’14 & ’15. Not a good track record aside from that.
Also if you think Royals fans think of Dayton Moore as a God, you know nothing about our fan base.
DMGM took a LOT of grief in Kansas City for a long time. Any feeling of him being treated like a God was likely more the result of fans showing remorse for treating him so poorly and wanting to recognize him finally for his accomplishment.
Actually a majority of fans love the guy. The naysayers are the dataheads who want a billy beane castoff running the team, and some atheists oddly enough who dont like his religious beliefs. I assume thats a fairly small subsection but who knows.
Well if they had a well rounded team like the royals they maybe would have played simple defense for an inning
If this was 2013, the sports world would be blowing up
Bubba kicking himself he knows he should have played football
I don’t know why nobody has brought up this bad contract swap, but I think Wil Myers plus parts like Carlos Asuaje, Travis Jankowski, Robbie Erlin back to KC for Alex Gordon plus Danny Duffy would be a huge win for both sides.
The Royals get to re-invest in Myers instead of wasting Duffy/Gordon (Big contracts) during a rebuild. With also adding a second baseman, a center fielder, and a Left Handed starting pitcher to replace Duffy in Erlin. Myers could play first/left and DH on a rotational basis with the Royals in the hopes that he turns into that All-Star player again with the hopes of moving him plus his contract while they are in the midst of a rebuild.
Gordon gives the Padres one more left handed bat in the lineup which they need, and he unlike Myers will play Gold Glove outfield still. Gordon then becomes the 4th outfielder replacing Jankowski, and being able to back up and platoon with Renfroe, Margot, Reyes, Gordon, Cordero.
Duffy obviously slides right to the top of Padres rotation at a comfortable salary for them.
Padres eat the difference in salary, because of the surplus value in which Duffy brings to the deal.
Alex Gordon is trash
So is Wil Myers
I fully expect the Royals to bargain shop and try to pick up cheaply some of the recent players non tendered by other teams.
Seriously, if I were Bubba I’d be out the door begging the Dodgers for a milb deal. They’ve got a knack for getting talented, underperforming players to reach their potential.
Thatd be awesome for them if Bubba Starling was actually talented.
I am wondering why they did this now. Is there something in the works that they need to free up 3 people on the 40 man roster?
Lucky or not the Royals went back to back and won one title. 28 other clubs that haven’t won since and teams like the Indians ummm 71 years would probably trade that for “ Pure Luck”. Whatever it was I will take it.