As far as the main thrust of his arguement goes i have some sympathy for what he is saying but i dont understand how he is so convinced Pods can be resigned?GMDM was quite adamant from what i have heard that there was absolutley no chance of him re-signing?

As for some people on here saying the trade is better for the Royals in the PRESENT because Gordon gets to play in LF for two months i think that absolutely ridiculous,the only person/s that gains from Gordon being in left for two months is Gordon himself & his supporters,the rest of the team in the PRESENT have to suffer while we all see if he can learn the art or not?

We have allready had “bobbled by Gordon “,now we can add “Didnt play it very well” as stated by the sycophantic Ryan Lefevre on last nights broadcast to the very first play of the game!

Now we need to get rid of Guillen or play Guillen and get rid of Ankiel. Either way frees up the DH for Kila. Guillen just sucks and paying Ankiel $3M+ to do what Maier can do better at $350K is insane. As Clark said it is time to cut Guillen lose for anything. Forget about the salary relief just get rid of him.

And forget about the Royals record. Just watch the farm system blossom. If Crow and Melville get untracked the Royals would have an unbelievably strong system.

Gordon probably is not the answer in LF or RF, he is not a good hitter and he doesn’t know how to read a fly ball to save his life. I hope he proves me wrong, but I am not holding my breath for it. I would really like to see what Lough, Parraz, or Dyson have to offer, and next year we could see what Robinson, Orlando, Ortiz, Smith, and Van Stratten.

I don’t know how much money they will have after all the arbitrations and raises, but it doesn’t seem like much. It would be nice to see Werth in RF, but I doubt that’s possible. Another year of Greinke, Meche (?), Hoch, Banny, Davies, might just kill me, so it would be nice to see a new arm, whether its from the system (Monty, Duffy, Dwyer, Lamb), or if they can find a #2 starter in FA, I don’t care.

Podsednik was a decent player, but I’d rather have someone from AAA audition for a spot next year with a couple months of big league experience from this Fall. Even if we lose a couple more games this year, great! Maybe a better draft position.

We could still sign him up for next year, but the guy will be 35 next year. The guy will start declining in performance and speed. he will be 36 in two years when most of these great young performers are called up and will be even worse for wear at that point.

However, I have never played major league baseball myself so none of this really counts since the only people qualified to comment about baseball are those people who have played or currently are playing professional major league baseball.

Similarly, I can’t tell if the guy who just cut my hair did a bad job or not because I’ve never been a barber. Even if I thought it was bad, my opinion wouldn’t matter.

Did Pods bring intangibles (work ethic, professionalism, etc.)? Certainly he did, but Dayton Moore was quoted as saying they doubted that he was going to resign with the Royals. As such, acquiring two players, one of whom (Pimentel) has real potential makes sense.

It makes even more sense as it allows the Royals to see Alex Gordon for two months everyday. Can he hit? I’m skeptical, but let’s find out this year when we are fighting to finish out of last place than ‘wondering’ about it on Opening Day of 2011 when the Royals are hopefully going to be fighting for some place higher in the standings. Even if Gordon flops, the Royals are no worse off than if they had kept Pods and then not resigned him – they will still be needing two outfielders, but they will at least know that Gordon will not be one of them. Along the way, they added catching depth in the high minors and a live arm.

This isn’t the deal of the century, but then, like it or not, Scott Podsednik (whose statistically irrelevant 12 caught stealings and 3 pickoffs basically reduce his on-base percentage by almost 40 points) is an average player – nothing more.