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Royals Sign Jose Mijares

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | December 21, 2011 at 3:29pm CDT

The Royals announced that they signed Jose Mijares to a one-year, Major League contract for 2012. The deal is worth $925K, according to Rustin Dodd of the Kansas City Star (on Twitter). Kansas City's 40-man roster is full with the addition of the 27-year-old SFX client.

“We expect Jose to be a solid addition from the left side that further strengthens our bullpen,” Royals GM Dayton Moore said in a press release. “He has been especially good against left-handed hitters in his career and will give Ned [Yost] more options to match up late in the game.”

Mijares posted a 4.59 ERA with 5.5 K/9, 5.5 BB/9 and a 31.1% ground ball rate in 49 innings for the Twins this past season, only to be non-tendered in December. He owns a more respectable 3.16 ERA in four MLB seasons to go along with career marks of 6.9 K/9 and 3.6 BB/9. Mijares will join sophomore left-handers Tim Collins and (potentially) Everett Teaford in Kansas City's bullpen.

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  1. Koby2

    11 years ago

    Depth move, nothing more.

    Reply
  2. MauerPower

    11 years ago

    I hope Joe Mauer gets plenty of hits off Mijares.

    Reply
    • $21002046

      11 years ago

      No Show Joe will have to be active for more than half the schedule, in order to get a lot of hits off anyone.

      Reply
      • MauerPower

        11 years ago

        I’m not too worried about Joe next season. He should be ready to go come March.

        Reply
        • Daniel Wesley

          11 years ago

          He should be ready to go to the DL come April. 😉

        • MauerPower

          11 years ago

          If he survives the off-season without his legs falling off. 

        • $21002046

          11 years ago

          The quitter probably re-injured a knee kneeling down to propose to his boyfriend

        • JerisG24

          11 years ago

          Nah, he was doing the Tebow.

  3. Daniel Wesley

    11 years ago

    So what happened in 2011 to cause his BB% to spike? Looks like he had nice numbers in ’09 and ’10 but the bottom fell out last year.

    Reply
    • Bryz

      11 years ago

      Twins officials were typically frustrated with his lack of conditioning. Perhaps in 2011 he just wasn’t able to get “in shape” by the start of the season.

      “In shape” for Mijares is a relative term.

      Reply
      • Brent Saindon

        11 years ago

        Not sure, but his stats against lefties were still decent

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        • Bryz

          11 years ago

          Yep, he’s always been solid against lefties. If the Royals indeed plan on making him into a LOOGY, he should be a great find for them.

      • twinsgeek

        11 years ago

        Technically, round and doughy is a shape.

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    • zak chrzaszcz

      11 years ago

      hes a headcase and the twins tried to use him against too many righties.  He lost any shred of command he used to have and a couple mph.  Could be an ok LOOGY next year but I doubt it.

      Reply
    • $21002046

      11 years ago

      He struggled to throw strikes and pitched behind in the count more than he had in past years, particularly vs. RHP. Due to the state of the Twins pen he was also left in to face RH hitters more than usual.

      Reply
    • John

      11 years ago

      but the bottom fell out last year

      It wasn’t so much the bottom that fell out, but the muffin top.

      Reply
  4. twinsgeek

    11 years ago

    Twins could have paid him $200K less than this in arbitration, which means he was a tradeable commodity. And yet they non-tendered him. There is something going on here that we don’t know.

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    • Mike Lynch

      11 years ago

      How do you figure?  MLBtraderumors was projecting Mijares to make $1M in Arbitration.  The KC contract is in line with that projection.

      Reply
    • John

      11 years ago

      My assumption is that he was specifically made an example of, as an outcome of the front office re-shuffle.  Wasn’t doing things the Twins way, it seems.  Jose wasn’t the only one with a questionable offseason training regimen, but he’s the one who they cut for it.  As we see, Jose comes out of this about the same, financially, so I’m not sure what message this actually conveys in the clubhouse.

      Reply
  5. Espen Kysely

    11 years ago

    Royals could have a pretty nice bullpen next year.

    Reply
  6. D.j. Wilson

    11 years ago

    I love this move. It takes some pressure off Tim Collins to go in and get lefties out

    Reply
  7. Jelly bean Butera

    11 years ago

    Funny, of all the players the Twins let go, this one is most likely to come back and bite them. At least against most of their lineup.

    Reply
    • dwarfcatt

      11 years ago

      also the most likely to literally bite them, in an attempt to feed

      Reply
  8. Andy Stocker

    11 years ago

    Mijares should have been removed after melting down in 2009.  Does anyone remember when Delmon Young yelled at him after getting plunked? Mijares deserved that.

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