Five kinds of players populate the Royals. The first is swirling-the-drain veterans, who themselves fall into two subcategories: failed players who want to start and can't justify their presence in that role on any other team, or abysmal bench players hanging on by their toenails. In the latter subcategory, I list outfielder Emil Brown; in the former, I note Matt Stairs, overvalued-at-$4.70M Terrence Long, Tony Graffanino, Eli Marerro, and the spectacularly bad Jose Lima. Lima, the ...
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