Here's some news from the only division in baseball whose members are all former World Series champions…
- Carlos Quentin attributes his strong start to learning how to leave the game at the ballpark and how to cope with failure, writes Tim Kurkjian for ESPN.com.
- The Royals will look within their organization for bullpen help, as Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star reports the club doesn't want to risk losing anyone from their current 40-man roster.
- "Kansas City baseball fans have grown sick of money," writes SI's Joe Posnanski, noting that fans seem to appreciate how the Royals are spending on their minor league system rather than on stop-gap veterans. Posnanski points out that K.C.'s league-low payroll could (or should) be even lower given the Royals are paying Kyle Davies and Jason Kendall a combined $6.95MM in 2011.
- Right-hander Alex White, the Indians' first-round pick (15th overall) in the 2009 amateur draft, will make his Major League debut on Saturday. The Tribe will have to make room for White on the 40-man roster — Paul Hoynes of the Cleveland Plain Dealer thinks the club could move one of their several infielders, while MLB.com's Anthony Castrovince speculates that right-hander Jess Todd could be the odd man out.
- Also from Castrovince, right-hander Adam Miller has been cleared to pitch for the Indians' Class A affiliate. Miller was picked 31st overall by Cleveland in the 2003 amateur draft, but hasn't pitched since 2008 due to four surgeries on his right middle finger. Miller, 26, has a 3.51 ERA, 8.7 K/9 rate and a 3.19 K/BB ratio in 104 minor league appearances (94 of them starts).
Major league baseball should force David Glass to sell the Royals. He making a mockery of the team and of Baseball.
How so? The organization is continuously developing with young talent. It seems each year they are one more step closer to being a better team in a winnable division. And with their recent committment to not spending on stop-gaps, they are allowing themselves future payroll to keep their young players as they become stars.whit
Yeah we’ll see where this experiment gets them. Glass should be running a Wal-Mart, not a major league baseball franchise. Prospects are just prospects until they perform at the major league level. In another ten years if the developing talent doesn’t exactly pan out Kansas City will have twenty years of red dot specials. Then they should run him out of town like Wal-Mart runs out all the local general stores. Kansas City deserves better!
David Glass and the Royals get it.. The diiminishing returns from signing players to multi-year megamillion dollar contracts are a POOR investment. The business of baseball is exactly that.. a business. For all the so called fans who want to see the next Jason Werth or Carl Crawford added to their team, $ 126 MM and $ 142 MM, respectively).. they’re the first to cry about rising ticket prices (example:If Carl Crawford was signed to the Royals, do Royal fans want to see a $ 7.00 surcharge for EVERY ticket added to their current ticket price?) Sure, winning is the desired goal, but losing money isn’t. Sadly, the emotion and ease by which a cry for a more spending doesn’t take into account sanity.. shrugs..