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mrnatewalter
Salvador Perez’s contract will continue to increase, and if it continues as it has for the last 3 seasons, his production will continue to decrease as well.
Enjoy, Royals fans.
ffjsisk
Salvador Perez will make 3 mil next year. I think he’ll be fine.
mrnatewalter
I’m not talking about just 2017. His numbers have pretty much dropped every season for the past 3. At this point, there’s little reason to predict that’ll change until it actually does.
If the pattern continues, he’ll get older, more expensive, and worse. Not a great trio.
oct27
Perez had a better OPS this year than the previous two.
The guy is an OBP nightmare, but he’s also a gold glove catcher that hit 22 HR. His chasing pitches can be maddening – but he does SO much else for this team that his production would have drop significantly for him to be an ‘albatross’ when he reaches those 10-12 mil years. And even then – the total contract had value due to what he’s provided the past few seasons for pennies.
cuffs2
You clearly do not understand what is going on with Salvador Perez. He is 26 right now and will not be 27 until May 10th 2017. His offensive tailoff in recent years is not because of diminishing skills or advanced age.He has yet to hit his prime and is the Games Premier Defensive Catcher.. He has 3 straight Gold Gloves and is a shoe in to win a 4th after leading the majors in percentage caught stealing, putouts by a catcher, Assists by a catcher among other Statistics.All that said he has suffered from overuse in recent seasons.In addition to logging more innings behind the plate than any catcher in baseball for 4 years running, he has played in 2 full Post Seasons followed by extensive international exhibition tours. His declining offensive numbers were the result of overuse and nothing more. Even so he has had a remarkable knack of hitting in the clutch in both the Regular and post seasons. And each year he has had more Homers than the previous year.. But in both 2014 and 2015 he played in close to 250 games including Spring , regular season, playoffs, Exhibition games and winter Ball for his beloved Venezuela. Rest and a lazy off season and he should be ready to have a career year on offense.4-5 months off instead of just 1-2 off might cause a large rebound in his offensive statistics. His contract will be a bargain in the long run and at 26 he has a decade or more to amass impressive numbers
mrnatewalter
wOBA and wRC+ have gone down (with almost an unnoticeable rise this year). Strikeout rate as well as swinging strike percentage has also gone up.
From 2013–2016, his wRC+ is 92, his wOBA is a mediocre .310. He’s actually amongst the bottom of the pack in terms of qualified catchers offensively over the past three seasons, and most of his value is locked up in his defense, to which he’s been the best in that span, I’ll give you that much.
Perez will be making a lot more after 2017, as his extension really begins to kick in. No one should be concerned about him making $3M, in fact, $3M with those numbers isn’t too shabby. But before long, he’s going to be making a lot more money, and who knows if he’ll turn it around. He hasn’t yet.
AndThisGameBelongsToMySanDiegoPadres
A fire sale is a comin’
mrnatewalter
Wouldn’t totally surprise me. I don’t know if I see another deep run coming out of KC with this core.
The questions I have are:
1. How closed is that window? This team obviously has talent, but it’s aging. Perez is getting worse by the year. Hosmer stunk and Moustakas is coming off a bad injury. The pitching staff isn’t exactly anything to write home about.
But, they have several good, young players still. They could use their core and fill gaps out of their farm system.
2. What can they reasonably expect for a lot of their guys? They aren’t trading Hosmer or Perez. Cain is coming off a rough season. Kennedy is overpaid. Gordon is overpaid (and aging). Escobar isn’t going to be ridiculously sought after.
They seem to have Wade Davis and who else to move that would bring back considerable returns?
AndThisGameBelongsToMySanDiegoPadres
I’m thinking they make one more go at it in 2017, then a big chunk of their core hits free agency. They’ll QO all the worthy free agents and trade everyone else.
cameronator
“Hosmer stunk”, I guess 104 RBI and 25 homers is bad now. He had a career year! But you’ll disregard Gordon’s abysmal season.
mrnatewalter
He had a 101 wRC+, his wOBA was the lowest it’s been his entire career, and his strikeout rate was the highest its ever been.
But seeing how you used simply HRs and RBIs to justify your argument, I’m not sure there’s much reason to even attempt to debate this with you.
Also, for what it’s worth, not mentioning Gordon’s abysmal season does not equal disregarding it. I didn’t realize I had to cover every player.
chesteraarthur
more to baseball than rbis and dingers….
ripperlv
Not being a KC fan, I was a little surprised by this statement. But sure enough, he ended up with a -0.2 WAR. Even Cultbert had a 0.2 WAR. So I’d say to say Hosmer was not good.
BoldyMinnesota
Hosmer did stink
bradthebluefish
This payroll looks like trouble. Especially given it’s a small market team with good size contracts to aging players.
If I were the Royals, I would combine some of my prospects or more worth players with players like Ian Kennedy just to empty payroll.
However, the only problem with doing that is your will need to spend that savings back on the free agent market in order to build back some WAR. So who knows how grand it works out in the end.
BeltonKenn
Part of the issue with Perez is the amount of games he starts. Ned needs to have a better plan to get Perez more rest, which means finding a backup catcher he can or will trust. Regarding trades, if they can get something of value for Davis, they should make that move. Wade has been great, but KC needs to add players with solid potential for down the road.
Lantzalot94
Drew Butera was actually a very solid backup catcher for KC this year. I expect him to get even more playing time next season, especially with the possibility of a rotating DH.
BravesNomad
I could see a salary dump type of trade working between the Royals and Braves. Royals could go ahead and pick up Volquez’s option at 10mil, then trade him, Soria and Duffy to Atlanta for Blair, Wisler, Jenkins and Ramirez. Before you say not enough coming back-keep in mind you guys would be exchanging 25.5 mil for 2.2mil. Wisler, Blair, And Jenkins could all benefit from pitching in that large park as well as in Det and Minn. Ramirez is a hard throwing young gun for your pen to replace Soria and his large salary. Atlanta get’s the two starting pitchers they need and an experienced BP arm to pair up with JJ. Atlanta has a pile of cash this off season, and could afford to offer Duffy a nice extension that KC probably won’t be able to afford. Probably won’t happen but it would work.
R2D2
The braves would be stupid to do that trade Volquez had a high era and Soria would be a bust, Duffy would be the only value the braves would be getting and tradeing Blair, Wisler, and Jenkins would be a terrible move, maybe Duffy for one of the three and a prospect
BravesNomad
Prior to 2016 Volquez was pretty solid, and for 1 yr at 10 mil with his solid past that’s a bit of a bargain, especially considering he should get back to pitching to a 3.6-3.8 ERA in the NL and eat innings from the backend. Soria’s last stint in the NL was very good, still throws hard and is another bounceback candidate. Duffy is the real prize here as he’s a young Lefty which the Braves really need until the rookies are ready. Duffy will cost more to move because of his age and low salary for 2017. Also Volquez and Soria are trade candidates mid season for teams contending, if we’re out, if somehow we’re in then their experience is a plus. Yes it’s a bit of an overpay, I know this but through several snippets of media, Coppy doesn’t seem to think much of Blair and Wisler, hence why I would move them because the FA is better next offseason for SP and they wouldn’t block anyone.
halos101
they gotta find a way to get rid of kennedy, soria and maybe even gordon. IMO a fire sale is real close to happening
oct27
The Royals are very capable of, and have every intention on competing for the post season in 2017. Why in the world would they need to “get rid of Kennedy”? He’s one of their two best SP and had a very solid year.
bfletchall9
Royals need to not regress, we got 1 more year of contention, need to make the most of it