KC Royals Contract and roster changes
Contract changes from data reported at
Cot's Baseball Contracts
- Coco Crisp final year (2010) is a team option
- Kyle Farnsworth final year (2011) is a team option
- David Dejesus final year (2011) is a team option
- Yasuhiko Yabuto final year (2010) is a team option
- Juan Cruz final year (2011) is a team option
- Joakim Soria final 3 years are club options (2012 - 2014). Since OOTP only allows for one option year
make the final year optional.
- Mitch Maier is on a major league contract, 405k
- John Bale is in the 1st year of a 1 year contract signed for 2009, salary is $1.2 million
- Robinson Tejada contract is 435k, not 400k
- Brian Buchanan is on a minor league contract, assigned to AAA Omaha not on the 25 man roster and not on the 40 man roster.
- Jose Duarte is not on the 40 man roster,
Jose Duarte, Kansas City Royals, MLB - CBSSports.com Baseball says he was reassigned to minor league camp in ST
- Cody Strait is not on the 40 man roster
- Daniel Cortes is not on the 40 man roster
- Jairo Cuevas is not on the 40 man roster
- Matt Wright is not on the 40 man roster
- Brandon Duckworth is not on the 40 man roster, booted from ML ST 4/4/2009. On a minor league contract, not signed to a 2 year ML contract.
- Ryan Shealy is not on the 40 man roster
- Tommy Murphy is not on the 40 man roster
- Shane Costa is not on the 40 man roster
- Travis Metcalf should be a member of the Texas Rangers organization. He was DFAd and Released by the Rangers 4/5/2009 and not signed by the Royals until 4/8/2009.
- Tug Hulett is on the 40 man roster
- Henry Barrerra is on the 40 man roster
- Mario Lisson is on the 40 man roster
- Devon Lowery is on the 40 man roster
- Julio Ceasar Pimental is on the 40 man roster. He has an elbow injury that has kept him out this long, he's elected not to have surgery. Not sure why the Royals have him taking up a space on the 40 man, but they do.
I've started going through the Ratings and I will post that when I am done with it.