<![CDATA[shoe Blog Posts]]> http://www.kansascityroyalsnews.com/shoe/weblog/ <![CDATA[What Could Have Been Royals]]> http://www.kansascityroyalsnews.com/shoe/weblog/5104/what-could-have-been-royals.html http://www.kansascityroyalsnews.com/shoe/weblog/5104/what-could-have-been-royals.html Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:08:03 PDT The Royals according to the Kansas City Star,  are actively attempting to trade Mark Teahen to the Cleveland Indians for Franklin Gutierrez, Ben Francisco or minor-leaguer Trevor Crowe.  Great!  So essentially the Royals will get Ben Francisco for Carlos Beltran.  The Royals traded Beltran in 2004 for three studs, Mark Teahen, John Buck, and Mike Wood.  With Wood no longer in the Royals, Buck proving he is not a major league catcher, and Teahen potentially heading to Cleveland, the Royals and their fans got stuck with nothing for one of the best center fielders in baseball.  If you recall, the KC was in negotation talks with other teams, including the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees for the Beltran sweepstakes.  The talks with the Red Sox were for acquiring Kevin Youkilis (then a third baseman) and catcher Kelly Shoppach.  The Yankees countered with Robinson Cano and Dioner Navarro.  Instead of cornerstone players like Youkilis and Cano, the Royals get Franklin Gutierrez.  Gutierrez hit .248 last year, an actual downgrade from Teahen (.255).  Mark Teahen hit .285 in 2007 and .290 in 2006.  Yes Dayton Moore, lets trade Teahen at his lowest trade value.  If Mark Teahen has a bad first half in 2009 then trade him at the deadline.  I think we atleast owe that to him, after all we did trade Carlos Beltran for the guy.  Then we can put all our eggs in the Trevor Crow basket.

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