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Transaction Oracle— A Timely Look at Transactions as They Happen
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Royals - Signed Kendall
Kansas City Royals - Signed C Jason Kendall to a 2-year, $6 million contract.
Dayton Moore is starting to resemble an unlucky version of Quincy Magoo. Kendall is pretty much John Buck without the power these days and while I guess one could make a tortured case of Kendall mentoring a staff of young pitchers, the Royals aren’t exactly teeming with young pitchers and the primary one did just fine being mentored by Buck, Olivo, and Pena.
Seriously, if the Royals gave me $1 million to me to kick Moore in the crotch, they’d be better off from both a financial and a baseball standpoint.
ZiPS Projection - Jason Kendall (C)
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AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG OPS+
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2010 420 44 106 20 1 2 39 37 46 6 .252 .328 .319 73
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Top Offensive Comps: Brad Awesomeness, Bob Boone, Luke Sewell
ODDIBE
Offense
Top Quintile 1%
2nd Quintile 2%
Mid Quintile 7%
4th Quintile 28%
Low Quintile 63%
OPS+ OBP 3B Hits
160+ 0% .400+ 1% 10+ 0% 200+ 0%
140+ 0% .375+ 6% 5+ 1% 150+ 0%
130+ 0% .350+ 21%
120+ 0% .325+ 54% 2B
110+ 1% .300+ 84% 45+ 0%
100+ 2% 30+ 4%
90+ 7%
80+ 24%
60+ 57%
BA SLG HR SB
.350+ 0% .550+ 0% 50+ 0% 70+ 0%
.325+ 1% .500+ 0% 40+ 0% 50+ 0%
.300+ 5% .450+ 0% 30+ 0% 30+ 0%
.275+ 20% .400+ 0% 20+ 0% 10+ 10%
.250+ 54% .350+ 12% 10+ 0%
(Based on Projected PA)
Dan Szymborski
Posted: December 15, 2009 at 04:51 PM | 15 comment(s)
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1. BobbyS Posted: December 15, 2009 at 05:33 PM (#3413339)I'll do it for 500K! And I'm a non-union consultant so the Royals won't be on the hook if I break a toes or something.
OK, but can you kick as hard as Dan? They'd have to hold tryouts.
I've never met Dan, but yes.
Yes, that's right, every single remaining Royals fan would like to kick Moore in the balls.
It's odd. $1 M a season in today's baseball world is almost ignorable. Yet Kendall at the originally reported 2/$4 was an almost cromulent move that was just a bad idea for the Royals but, hey, at least it saved money over Buck. Somehow at 2/$6, it's like 3 times worse. Must be the new math.
god, it took my two minutes of wondering if that was a real guy that I never heard of before I figured out who it was. I need to stop drinking in the middle of the day.
Sometimes players make a conscious decision to sacrifice average for power, or power for average. Kendall has sacrificed both and thrown in a sacrifice in speed as well and I have yet to figure out what he got back in return.
Yeah, I'm pretty shocked this go the straight treatment.
The ability to play for a whole year with a torn tendon in his thumb. Which then required three different operations that offseason.
And he was never the same hitter again. The end.
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