Alex Rios agrees to one-year with royals

[Number5]

Supply and Demand.

Demand just went down, not up. One less landing spot available. Remember what Cruz ended up signing for last year?

[Guest]

I love how the Royals are outspending us

They still have a lower payroll in 2015. Plus the Royals will pay $17.5 million in 2015 to Kendrys Morales and Alex Rios. That's just DUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LocoChris]

Scrubs now get 10-11 per. Funny market.

We signed Cruz for 3M less :eektf:

[Crazysilver03]

I love how the Royals are outspending us

Too bad they aren't making any good moves.

[Aristotelian]

Colby Rasmus price just went up.

Could force the market down on Aoki. I would guess this means KC is out of the bidding on him. I would much rather have Aoki at 2/$24 than Rios 1/$11. Aoki could fall to us by default, kind of like Cruz last year.

[theobird]

Well, the Royals are flush with cash coming off their post season run last year. That and the fact that they are such a big market team....Oh wait. They really are a small market team. Huh......

[olehippi]

I love how the Royals are outspending us

Yeah....well KC just paid about twice what Rios is worth in the real life baseball world.

And of course, he will have a career year for them.

[theobird]

Could force the market down on Aoki. I would guess this means KC is out of the bidding on him. I would much rather have Aoki at 2/$24 than Rios 1/$11. Aoki could fall to us by default, kind of like Cruz last year.

KC did not want to bring Aoki back, and never had any substantive talks with his representation. Like Cruz, he is not a very good OFer, which is why they always used a defensive replacement for him late in games. Unlike Cruz, he has no pop in his bat. None.

[Guest]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Alex Rios' power dropoff last year was a concern to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/orioles?src=hash">#orioles</a> and other clubs shopping for free agent outfield help.</p>— Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) <a href="

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[AlbionHero]

KC did not want to bring Aoki back, and never had any substantive talks with his representation. Like Cruz, he is not a very good OFer, which is why they always used a defensive replacement for him late in games. Unlike Cruz, he has no pop in his bat. None.

They used defensive replacements since they have 3 of the best defensive OFs in the game on the roster, in Gordon/Dyson/Cain. He's pretty much an average defensive OF.

[oriole]

I always felt like Rios would be the bargain bin player we grabbed for RF. I'm glad he isn't though I can't say for sure who I want to see. Hopefully not Rasmus or Aoki on one of these bloated contracts.

[Frobby]

We don't really know which players are the ones Dan likes, and at what price. I trust his judgment. I'm sure he will get someone he thinks can contribute what is needed.

[Oriole1940]

It appears that KC after coming close to winning the WS in 2014 is giving it a real shot in 2015. Only time will tell if they are successful. I hope not.

[Guest]

One thing is for sure, though. Baseball economics are broken and only getting worse.

[Aristotelian]

KC did not want to bring Aoki back, and never had any substantive talks with his representation. Like Cruz, he is not a very good OFer, which is why they always used a defensive replacement for him late in games. Unlike Cruz, he has no pop in his bat. None.

Aoki is an average defensive OF which makes him light years better than Cruz. Fangraphs has Cruz at -11 defensive runs in maybe 50 games played in the field, vs Aoki at 0.2 defensive runs as an everyday OF.

I am not saying Aoki is a better player, only that he could fall to us at a reasonable price the same way Cruz did. Aoki does not have power but he is a very consistent .350 OBP hitter, including .319 vs. lefties.