Melky Cabrera to the Royals?

[endaround]

We better hurry and get Gomez traded to KC before they sign all the crappy OFers and have no room left!

http://www.royalsreview.com/2010/12/9/1865646/royals-reportedly-sign-of-melky-cabrera

[JimH5]

If I were a Royals fan, I think I'd have to come up with another summertime activity.

[hawing]

How's Ned going to nickname Melky? Melky-y?

[logan82]

Cabby?

[sbrylski]

How's Ned going to nickname Melky? Melky-y?

Cabbie?

[Team Canada]

Comedy gold from Dayton Moore:

 

"We feel really, really good about what we did to improve our outfield situation. Melky Cabrera broke into the major leagues at 21. I think he played 101 games in center field in 2009 and if memory serves me right, he was on the field playing center field when the Yankees won the championship in 2009."

"We targeted Jeff and Melky months ago as players we felt were not even at the prime of their careers yet, haven't peaked. There's upside there. Guys who were going to play with energy, guys who were going to be enthusiastic."

"We'll probably have more homegrown players in spring training than anybody in baseball. I'm anticipating we will. So this fits with what we're trying to do. One-year contracts that fit the salary structure of our organization. They're the perfect type of guys for us vs. someone who's 29 to 33 who's on the downside of their career."

"[Cabrera] just wasn't as productive as the year before. He's motivated. He's very capable of having a bounceback year, as is Jeff Francoeur."

[hawing]

They haven't peaked...yet they're "very capable of having a bounceback year."

[GAME05]

there's nowhere to go but up........i suppose.

[hawing]

How's Ned going to nickname Melky? Melky-y?

Cabbie?

Neither Cabby nor Cabbie is labored enough to be a true Yostian nickname. Maybe Cabrery.

[joepepsi]

I never understood the hype for Melky. Of course once he left the Yankees the hype ended.

[JimH5]

By mid-June, he'll be known as Sour Melk.

 

Hiyooooooo. . . . .

[reillymcshane]

By mid-June, he'll be known as Sour Melk.

 

Hiyooooooo. . . . .

 

 

Haha! Awesome. Made me laugh out loud. Thanks.

[Ennder]

I never understood the hype for Melky. Of course once he left the Yankees the hype ended.

Given the year he had at age 22 it isn't surprising he got a lot of hype, there wasn't even any luck in the stats or anything. He just regressed from there.