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1. Steve Balboni's Personal Trainer Posted: December 12, 2009 at 02:58 PM (#3410701)C - Jerry May, OPS+ of 92
1B - Gail Hopkins, 126
2B - Cookie Rojas, 117
3B - Paul Schaal, 128
SS - Freddie Patek, 97
LF - Lou Pinella, 93
CF - Amos Otis, 124
RF - Joe Keough, 83
Their top five starting pitchers were all under 30 years of age, made 120 combined starts, and had ERA+ of 115, 127, 128, 100, and 93. Their top three relievers had ERA+ of 134, 119, and 198.
This was as a third-year frnachise, with very few of their players being from their still-growing farm system at the time.
The current Royals have finished above .500 once since 1993. They have finished higher than 4th exactly three times since 1994 - and their win total in those three seasons was 70-74, 72-89, and 83-79.
What did they know in 1971 that they can't even begin to approximate in in 2010?
How to rip-off other teams in trades?
They got Amos Otis (and Bob Johnson) from the Mets for Joe Foy.
They got Freddie Patek, Jerry May and Bruce Dal Canton from the Pirates for the above mentioned Bob Johnson, Jim Campanis and Jackie Hernandez.
They got Lou Piniella from the Seattle Pilots for for John Gelnar and Steve Whitaker.
They got Cookie Rojas from the Cardinals for Fred Rico.
If you want to jump forward a couple of years, at the end of the 1972 season the Royals would get Hal McRae and Wayne Simpson from the Reds for Roger Nelson and Richie Scheinblum.
So it seems to me that the main thing the Royals of that period had going for them was that they had mastered the art of being on the right side of a lopsided trade.
Of course, all good things must come to an end: at the end of the 1973 season the Royals traded Lou Piniella and Ken Wright to the New York Yankees for Lindy McDaniel. You can't win 'em all.
DB
Sigh.
I thought that was the most interesting part of Joe's post. He's convinced Callaspo won't play for the Royals next year. I'd be interested to see him expand on that point. I know the front office hated Callaspo's defense last year, and not for no reason, but trading or releasing him still strikes me as remarkably foolish, even for the Royals.
Well, yeah. They had Cedric Tallis pulling off perhaps the greatest run of trading wins ever achieved. Tallis was a completely brilliant GM.
Oh, just shut up, will you? I'm trying to grade exams here, and you mention Joe Foy. Next thing up is going to be Jim Fregosi, then Dan Norman, and I'll just be handing out D's left and right.
The most incredible thing, in my mind, about the Amos Otis for Joe Foy trade, is that one year earlier, prior to the 1969 season, the Mets could have gotten Joe Torre from the Braves, but Otis would have been part of the package that the Mets would have given up, and Mets GM Johnny Murphy declared that Amos Otis was untouchable (which led one local New York sportswriter to remark: "If the Mets have so many untouchables, how come they always finish in the second division?")
DB
You'll always be able to say that you were traded for Atlee Hammaker. :)
Ooh, you're messing around on the internet when you should be grading!
Just kidding. Which brings up something interesting I've noticed about myself: if I decide that I have to write a paper due in a day or two, no more screwing around, don't even OPEN firefox, then nothing's getting done and I'm staring at a half a page of an introduction and little else after a while. I have to keep something open to glance at to keep my mind going and think. Guess I'm not the only one like that.
Things got tricky in the dugout after a home run.
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