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The Oregonian
And the strong get stronger.
AsFan89
Well, they did lose Gordon, Zobrist, Cueto, Madson and Young (at least for now).
bradb4ku
I’m still holding out hope for Gordon but it looks like Zo is gone even though he named his daughter Royal.
Cd360
Gordon is gone. Someone will overpay for him.
Joseph Anderson
Any fan with half a brain new Zobrist, Cueto and Madson would leave. Chris Young is still under contract unless you know something nobody else in baseball knows. Gordon will probably go somewhere else for the money. He’ll throw out that if it weren’t for the Royals he’d be back in Lincoln playing independent league baseball.
formerlyz
Pretty cool to see him go back there. He was dominant then, and now they have a pretty dominant bullpen in general
bobbleheadguru
If someone tells me he will be a starter….
1738hotlinebling
Awesome, now go get DeJesus back too
sdsuphilip
Soria has really only been good 1 of 4 years, his LOB% is no where near in line with recent previous years and in no way looks to be a skill of his, his ERA was flukish. He’s not terrible but he looks like a whatever middle reliever, he just used to be very good.
Now this and Madson deal make me think Os getting possible steal with ODay, now while 4 years for any 33 year old can be risky especially one that can’t give you too much upside value because of lack of innings, O’Day has consistently outperformed his periphals for last 4years, so his fWAR in my view undersells him. He probably won’t continue to outperform it this much but gets really soft contact. For him to get slightly less AV (4/31 to 3/25) to soria, and barely higher than madson is really baffling to me.
truroyal15
Pretty cool to see him come back where it all started. Fan favorite for sure and great sign by Dayton!!!
bradb4ku
I don’t know how I feel about getting the Mexicutioner back. He was pretty bad by the time he left and then went to the hated Tigers.