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[Little Slide Rooter]

Royals Designate Jonathan Sanchez For Assignment

By Ben Nicholson-Smith [July 17 at 3:17pm CST]

The Royals announced that they designated left-hander Jonathan Sanchez for assignment (Twitter link).

 

I hate to sterotype myself by using the term flier here, but I will anyway. Flier.

[Guest]

Boy do they hate hate hate Sanchez in Kansas City. Like Zambrano hate. Sanchez might be a candidate to turn into a reliever, but considering he's a free agent in a couple months, I have a hard time seeing how it makes sense to go get him now. Given his declining velocity and spiking walk rate, I can't help but think that his arm is about to go boom.

[Tim M]

He's the worst starting pitcher in baseball. Why would you be interested?

[Cubswin11]

If we trade both Dempster and Garza (which is probably better than 50/50 right now) and the return doesn't yield us major league ready/capable starting pitchers, yes I'd take a "flyer" as we'd need someone to fill their spots in the rotation as we don't have anyone that are clear options the minors to step in. He couldn't be worse than Wells or Volstad have been this year and he's been good/decent in the past

[bukie]

He's the worst starting pitcher in baseball. Why would you be interested?

Because he is constantly clueless as to the value of any player at any level at any point in baseball history.

[MWV]

The only of Sanchez ever did well was strike people out, and he hasn't done much of that this season. He's still awesome at walking people though. (K/BB of 0.82 in 53 IP this year). And it's not like he's all that young anymore at age 29. Our internal options suck, so there's that, but I certainly wouldn't give up much for him.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Boy do they hate hate hate Sanchez in Kansas City. Like Zambrano hate. Sanchez might be a candidate to turn into a reliever, but considering he's a free agent in a couple months, I have a hard time seeing how it makes sense to go get him now. Given his declining velocity and spiking walk rate, I can't help but think that his arm is about to go boom.

 

Have to wonder if that's due more to the fact that Sanchez has been awful for them or that the guy that they traded for him for is on pace for a 7 WAR season.

[Jake]

Sanchez is the guy we wanted when we traded Freddy Sanchez a few years ago.

 

He had some good years in SF.

 

You guys should take a risk and claim him. You're not going anywhere, little risk (other than couple of $$ on the contract.)

[bukie]

Little risk, but even littler reward. Velocity down, K rate down, walk rate up, already past his prime age. Volstad and Coleman are better options.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Sanchez is the guy we wanted when we traded Freddy Sanchez a few years ago.

 

He had some good years in SF.

 

You guys should take a risk and claim him. You're not going anywhere, little risk (other than couple of $$ on the contract.)

 

The pendulum will swing our way once again, my friend. Hopefully, it won't be long before Arismendy Alcantara and Hayden Simpson are the centerpieces for an Andrew McCutchen trade.

[TruffleShuffle]

Given his declining velocity and spiking walk rate, I can't help but think that his arm is about to go boom.

 

that's certainly possible, but it's also possible that his mechanics (which have always been iffy) are even more out of what, and that's caused his velocity loss and horrible command.

 

that being said, there's really no point trying to straighten out a pitcher who is going to be a free agent in two months.

[illiniguy]

Given his declining velocity and spiking walk rate, I can't help but think that his arm is about to go boom.

 

that's certainly possible, but it's also possible that his mechanics (which have always been iffy) are even more out of what, and that's caused his velocity loss and horrible command.

 

that being said, there's really no point trying to straighten out a pitcher who is going to be a free agent in two months.

He's a wreck mentally right now.

[pitchcs]

He's not good, so no....but I'd rather have Sanchez than Ben Sheets.

[JoshiQ]

Having watched a lot of his games on the Royals:

 

HELL NO! Stay far, far, far away. The guy is terrible. Don't think I could take him being on my two favorite teams in the same year.

[biittner77]

I hate to sterotype myself by using the term flier here, but I will anyway. Flier.

 

You've already taken more fliers than the Battle of Britain

[CubsInNC]

I hate to sterotype myself by using the term flier here, but I will anyway. Flier.

 

You've already taken more fliers than the Battle of Britain

 

 

Oh dang! I dare say chap, he just removed his white glove and slapped you upside your face with it.

[Guest]

Boy that's a dirty Sanchez for Jonathon.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I hate to sterotype myself by using the term flier here, but I will anyway. Flier.

 

You've already taken more fliers than the Battle of Britain

 

The beauty of fliers is that you can take out all you want. If you don't like what you see, toss it in in the trash before the end of the block. Best case scenrio, you get a great reclamation player. Worst case scenario, you have some toilet reading. Hendry took out a flier on Ryan Dempster, and the result was the longest tenured Cub of his era. Then he continued to take out fliers on the likes of Scott Willamson, Chad Fox, Wade Miller, and Chad Fox again. Can't forget that flier he pulled in May of 2008. The point is, I'd rather stock all of Iowa with once high profile fliers that have an off chance to be valuable, though has a greater chance of being junk than junk that we know will end up junk. So yes, give me Scott Kazmir, Brandon Wood, and Brandon Webb over Rodrigo Lopez, Matt Tolbert, and Alfredo Amezaga any day.

[Sammys Boombox]

I've gone to 17 Royals games this year. Sanchez is not only terrible, but he doesn't seem to even care what's going on. George Brett is a constant "Rah! Rah!" guy for the Royals and always defends the players during his weekly spot on the local radio station. Even he bashes Sanchez and says the guy doesn't care what goes on.

 

EDIT: Irrelevant, but he does this annoying thing when he's removed from a game where he kicks dirt across the foul line as he walks off the field.

[biittner77]

I hate to sterotype myself by using the term flier here, but I will anyway. Flier.

 

You've already taken more fliers than the Battle of Britain

 

The beauty of fliers is that you can take out all you want. If you don't like what you see, toss it in in the trash before the end of the block. Best case scenrio, you get a great reclamation player. Worst case scenario, you have some toilet reading. Hendry took out a flier on Ryan Dempster, and the result was the longest tenured Cub of his era. Then he continued to take out fliers on the likes of Scott Willamson, Chad Fox, Wade Miller, and Chad Fox again. Can't forget that flier he pulled in May of 2008. The point is, I'd rather stock all of Iowa with once high profile fliers that have an off chance to be valuable, though has a greater chance of being junk than junk that we know will end up junk. So yes, give me Scott Kazmir, Brandon Wood, and Brandon Webb over Rodrigo Lopez, Matt Tolbert, and Alfredo Amezaga any day.

 

IIRC, Dempster was coming off an injury and teams weren't sure if he was worth signing as a reliever. Not really the same as signing every recognizable name that comes along on the 1/20 chance that they might be good.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I hate to sterotype myself by using the term flier here, but I will anyway. Flier.

 

You've already taken more fliers than the Battle of Britain

 

The beauty of fliers is that you can take out all you want. If you don't like what you see, toss it in in the trash before the end of the block. Best case scenrio, you get a great reclamation player. Worst case scenario, you have some toilet reading. Hendry took out a flier on Ryan Dempster, and the result was the longest tenured Cub of his era. Then he continued to take out fliers on the likes of Scott Willamson, Chad Fox, Wade Miller, and Chad Fox again. Can't forget that flier he pulled in May of 2008. The point is, I'd rather stock all of Iowa with once high profile fliers that have an off chance to be valuable, though has a greater chance of being junk than junk that we know will end up junk. So yes, give me Scott Kazmir, Brandon Wood, and Brandon Webb over Rodrigo Lopez, Matt Tolbert, and Alfredo Amezaga any day.

 

IIRC, Dempster was coming off an injury and teams weren't sure if he was worth signing as a reliever. Not really the same as signing every recognizable name that comes along on the 1/20 chance that they might be good.

 

There are a lot of the Dempster type's that don't work out. Scott Kazmir, though I'm, not sure if he's had surgery is a similar case to Dempster. Had star potential, but was injured. Still young enough that he can be a top guy though. There's also that guy on the Cardinals.

 

There's really no harm in signing Sanchez. With Dempster supposedly about to be traded any day now, the timing would be perfect. We could either A. put him in the rotation right away, or B. do one of those minor league deals in which he can opt out by such and such a date. We call up Raley for Dempster, and if Sanchez strings together a few good starts, call him up if/when Garza's traded. It's not like there's another guy worthy of a look besides Raley.

[SouthSideRyan]

BUT HE SUCKS AND IS NOT YOUNG I WANT YOU TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIM AND RODRIGO LOPEZ

[Sammy Sofa]

WSR is totally the "ooooh, Navy Seals!!!!" guy from Clerks.

[Pushfrog98]

But Sanchez knows how to win. Dude has a WS title, no-hitter and an 11 strikeout playoff game under his belt!

[biittner77]

honest question: was Rodrigo Lopez ever any good?

 

This is not meant to imply that taking a flier on Sanchez is in any way a good idea. Merely curious.