While We’re Waiting… Competing in the AL Central, More ID Fraud Coming and a Brian Sipe Sighting
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The only division we can compete in? “Outside of the Fielder deal, while teams in the other divisions have improved, the teams in the AL Central this offseason have...
Via Waiting For Next Year
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14 days ago
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14 days ago
Discuss
Player Profile #105: Chris Young | OF | ARI
Color me biased (I’ve owned Chris Young for the last two seasons and I’m keeping him this season) but I think the Arizona outfielder is one of the more undervalued assets in fantasy. No one likes taking on a player with a career .240 average, but he’s had back-to-back 20/20 seasons and will almost certainly be in line for a third. At this point in his career, we...
Via Baseball Professor
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14 days ago
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14 days ago
Outfield assist of another kind
In a sense, there has been an air of spring training atmosphere around September baseball in Oakland for a while now. Only without the hope part.
The weather is great. The games don’t really decide anything. And not too many watch them to start with.
So, when Jeff Francoeur and his 59-83 Royals rolled into town to take on the 64-77 Athletics last September, the world wasn't exactly...
Via The Hardball Times
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17 days ago
FMart claimed by Astros- end of the big three...
Photo by Michael BaronAround 2006 it was once dreamed that the Mets would have this stud group of outfielders, who were all home grown. Lastings Milledge in left field, Fernando Martinez in right field and Carlos Gomez in center field. Now there all gone and the only one who turned out productive for the Mets was Carlos Gomez who was the center piece in the Johan Santana trade. After...
Via Mets Fever
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January 11, 2012
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January 11, 2012
Giants Sign (Former) Five-Tool Talent
The Giants lost a Joaquin to the Nationals yesterday. Waldis Joaquin was designated for assignment about a month ago, so Washington just swooped in and signed him to a minor-league deal. Joaquin put up a 1.17 K/BB in 50 innings in Fresno. So the Giants did what any clever organization would do. They went out and got a better Joaquin: Joaquin Arias. Well…maybe he’s better.
Arias...
Via SF Giants Nirvana
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December 15, 2011
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December 15, 2011
Royals Fans Rank Top 13 Moments Of 2011
Royals Ask Fans To Rank Top 13 Moments of 2011, Announce 13-Game Holiday Pack
KANSAS CITY, MO (December 15, 2011) – As the Kansas City Royals look forward to the 2012 campaign, the club is asking fans to rank the best 13 Royals moments of the past season by visiting www.royals.com/moments.
Fans can rank the top plays and favorite memories of 2011 and compare their rankings to...
Via i70baseball
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December 15, 2011
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December 15, 2011
AL Central Notes: Cespedes, Royals, Cuddyer
The Tigers, who agreed to sign Ramon Santiago to a two-year deal today, have interest in Coco Crisp. Here are the latest updates from their division, starting with a note on another possible outfield target for Detroit:
Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski will watch Yoenis Cespedes play in the Dominican Republic, according to Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com, who suggests this isâ€...
Via MLB Trade Rumors
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November 30, 2011
Broxton says Royals hunted him down
Hey, now we know how the Royals jumped ahead of a dozen other teams to land All-Star reliever Jonathan Broxton.
They did it at gunpoint.
OK, that's a slight exaggeration, but there definitely were firearms involved in the Royals' relentless recruiting of the former Dodger closer.
Manager Ned Yost invited Broxton, a fellow Georgia resident, to join him on a hunting trip...
Via Fox Sports Kansas City
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November 30, 2011
Jonathan Broxton Chooses Royals Over Mets Thanks to Jeff Francoeur
Jonathan Broxton chose the Royals over the Mets. That's kind of like choosing a punch to the stomach instead of a punch to the face.
Via The Big Lead
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November 30, 2011
Jonathan Broxton might be a Redneck
Jonathan Broxton used to be a young, chubby and talented, relief pitcher who would bring the heat and close the game for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now he has just become a blubbery eclamation project who can still bring the heat. The Kansas City Royals are decided he fits their system of baseball and needed to recruit him with a huge buffet dinner at Luby's bow-hunting trip with...
Via Sorry Bro: Sports Through Houser
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November 30, 2011
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November 30, 2011
Jeff Francoeur Enticed Jonathan Broxton By Taking Him Hunting At Jeff Foxworthy's House
We brought you the preliminary details of this courtship in *************** yesterday, but we buried the lead. Jeff Francoeur didn't just lure fatass reclamation project du jour Jonathan Broxton to the Kansas City Royals by taking him on a bow-hunting trip. Francoeur lured Broxton by taking him on a bow-hunting trip at Jeff Foxworthy's estate! The Jeff Foxworthy!More »
Via Deadspin
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November 30, 2011
Francoeur and Broxton; Spending on a closer
According to the New York Post, Royals OF Jeff Francoeur helped to recruit Jonathan Broxton during a hunting trip in Georgia.
Kernan says the Mets had David Wright make contact with Broxton, who will get a one-year, $4 million deal with incentives that could bring the contract to $5 million.
“I’m not much of a hunter, but that hunting trip really worked out well,” Francoeur...
Via Matthew Cerrone's Mets Blog
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November 30, 2011
Francoeur pitches Broxton — to Mets’ chagrin
Ex-met Jeff Francoeur admits he is not a good hunter, but he is one heck of a salesman.
Francoeur recently went bow-hunting with free-agent closer Jonathan Broxton in Georgia on the property of comedian Jeff Foxworthy, along with Royals manager Ned Yost, and helped convince the big right-hander that Kansas...
Via New York Mets ? New York Post
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November 30, 2011
The Other Guy
Funny how things work.First off, one of the names that we've been talking about (not that the Mets are necessarily talking about him) to possibly replace Angel Pagan was a guy who used to be a pitcher and then, for the reasons of self preservation, became an outfielder. Well. we got that guy.But not Rick Ankiel. In the tradition of Mike Maddux, Gerald Williams, Robby Alomar, and...
Via Metstradamus
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November 24, 2011
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November 24, 2011
Royals step up to help fill community's needs
Royals right fielder Jeff Francoeur always had a warm spot in his heart for the people of Joplin, Mo. So he was pleased that the team and, indeed, the entire Kansas City area supported the tornado-torn community.
Via royals.com
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November 23, 2011
I Got Mine: Jeff Francoeur, the Union, and the Draft
Prior the announcement of new Collective Bargaining Agreement yesterday, many thought that one sticking point might be “hard slotting” of signing bonuses for draftees. While hard slotting did not literally happen, the system of penalties for teams going over the “draft cap” looks like it will have the same intended effect. I am far from an expert on the draft...
Via Fangraphs
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November 23, 2011
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November 23, 2011
Francoeur happy to have Sanchez aboard in KC
Even though Royals right fielder Jeff Francoeur will miss having Melky Cabrera next to him in center field next season, he feels the addition of pitcher Jonathan Sanchez is a plus.
Via royals.com
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November 17, 2011
End of Season Post-Mortem: The 2011 Kansas City Royals
The 2010 Kansas City Royals won 67 games. The 2011 Kansas City Royals won 71 games. A four game improvement doesn't seem like a huge deal, but look at it this way. The Royals slashed payroll from $74 million in 2010 to $38 million in 2011, a nearly 50% decrease. The average age of their hitters went from 28.8 in 2010 to 25.8 in 2011. The average age of their pitchers went from...
Via The Outside Corner
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November 02, 2011
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November 02, 2011
Gordon, Francoeur finalists for Rawlings Gold Glove Award
Royals left fielder Alex Gordon and right fielder Jeff Francoeur are among the finalists for a Rawlings Gold Glove Award.
For the first time since the Gold Glove Awards were established in 1957, three finalists in each league were announced for each position.
A winner will be picked for each of the three outfield positions instead of three outfielders overall.
The winners will...
Via Fox Sports Kansas City
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November 01, 2011
Gordon, Francoeur among Gold Glove finalists
Left fielder Alex Gordon and right fielder Jeff Francoeur are the only two Royals among the finalists for a Rawlings Gold Glove Award.
Via royals.com
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November 01, 2011
Royals' Gordon, Francoeur finalists for Gold Gloves
Outfielders Alex Gordon and Jeff Francoeur are among the American League finalists to receive Gold Gloves for defensive excellence when Rawlings announces this year's winners at 9 p.m. Tuesday on ESPN2.
Via kansascity.com
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October 31, 2011
Trio of Royals nominated for Gibby Awards
Jeff Francoeur, Melky Cabrera and Eric Hosmer had great seasons -- no Royals fans would dispute that. Now the fans have a chance to help those players win GIBBYs -- the annual Greatness in Baseball Year Awards.
Via royals.com
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October 29, 2011
Frenchy picks former Texas teammates in six
Royals outfielder Jeff Francoeur is keeping close track of his former Texas teammates. And, no surprise, he'll be rooting for them as they take on the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.
Via royals.com
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October 18, 2011
Acquisitions Propel Rangers to ALCS…Again!
Image taken from Google Images
For the second straight season, the Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Rays to advance to the ALCS. Â For the second straight season, their success was largely based on recent player acquisitions.
In 2010, Rangers GM Jon Daniels made several key moves in both the offseason and prior to the trade deadline, including the additions of Colby Lewis, Bengie Molina...
Via Baseball Reflections
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October 08, 2011
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October 08, 2011
Candid Cameron: It's time to call up Crash Davis
Oh, my goodness.
Baseball season is over.
Say it ain't so!
Whatever will we do until pitchers and catchers report to Arizona in February?
Well, it's almost un-American if you don't spend the winter watching baseball movies and dreaming of those first green shoots of spring.
But which movies?
If you want to get a real argument going among fans and even players, try...
Via Fox Sports Kansas City
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October 04, 2011
THE ROYALS HOT 25
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