Royals DFA Tony Pena Jr.

Rany Jazayerli and some other writers should be happy now.

My money is on the Yanks, just because Tony Pena is a coach.

1st, he was DFAd not released. He is still a Royal.

2nd, Finally.

They had talked about making Pena Jr. a pitcher because of his amazing arm strength and complete lack of offensive talent.

Apparently he has a fastball that is consistently 95+ and can throw a nice curve and change up.

Itd be worth having a look at.

Yea, but they're going to put him on waivers, where he can be picked up

This was long awaited.

Except that his replacement is only marginally better. And costs much more money and actually cost prospects.

"This was long awaited.

Except that his replacement is only marginally better. And costs much more money and actually cost prospects."

lol, the real irony of it all is that this is basically the exact same circumstance in which TPJ was acquired.

The current SS sucked (Berroa), so DM trades a prospect for a stopgap who everybody else knew would be just as bad (if not worse), and he ends up starting for 2 years and being so bad that DM has to trade for another SS, who, of course is going to be just as bad as the previous 2 SS's and now you are 3 prospects and a few million dollars shorter.

This is the Royals front office, ladies and gentleman.

Wow, this took way too long. I must say, I'll always thank Pena Jr. for his Royals debut in 2007; 2 triples and a win against the Sox. I'm saying the Yanks, though, yech! He's not even AAAA, personally.

I called this one exactly: "My prediction for the next sub .300 OBP player to be moved today is TPJ, via the DFA, to make room for the recently aquired Betancourt."

Posted by: UnbiasedYankee | July 10, 2009 at 05:48 PM

Thank God! TPJ was garbage, and I can't believe it took this long to dump him.

Re: Royals and Shortstops

YOu have to hope that Dayton feels a little buyers remorse after hearing the Sox are willing to basically give up Lugo for nothing all for less (prospect-wise) than Cortes.

After the first few years the Royals would be wise to hire someone to pull the parachute everytime Dayton gets a hair up his arse to do something.

Between acting too quick to sign Guillen, jumping the gun on the slumping salaries this winter and now leaping off the bridge to get a SS when more were about to become available, you would think that DM would learn to chill the eff' out before making a move.