Royals decline mutual options on Jeremy Guthrie and Alex Rios

Ratings were helped by insane ratings in Kansas City, where 80% of all televisions turned on in the metro areawere tuned in to watch the Royals. It’s a long time but I truly, truly have enjoyed my time in this organization. The team advanced to their first World Series since 1985 in 2014 but ultimately fell to the San Francisco Giants in seven games. It is a rarity to be able to point to a player and say “it is ok to overpay that guy”.

Like the fabled phoenix, the New York Mets have been reborn from the ashes of the old teams we are used to seeing in Queens.

Unfortunately, they ran into the Mets buzzsaw and were swept in four games in the National League Championship Series. The game went to extra innings, the second time in the series and just the 10th time a World Series has had two games go into extra innings.

The World Series was mostly a blur, to be honest.

“But, again, I’m not going to take advantage of a relationship”. “The atmosphere of being there was fantastic”.

The 31-year-old left fielder opted to turn down a one-year player option to stay with the Royals for 2016, and is now a free agent. Despite everything the Royals faced and the way Vegas gave both clubs 30-1 odds to win the Series in Spring Training, the Mets were the bigger Cinderella story. “Once the Royals get on a roll, they are hard to stop”.

Kansas City Royals’ Salvador Perez waves to the crowd during a parade celebrating the Kansas City Royals winning baseball’s World Series, Tuesday, November 3, 2015, in Kansas City, Mo. The Royals reinvested that money in the farm system, most notably in signing Raul Mondesi, now the team’s top prospect.

With the Indians slated to bring back the bulk of their pitching staff, led by starters Corey Kluber, Carlos Carrasco, and Danny Salazar, they’ll be among the teams trying to knock off the Royals, who had them by 13.5 games in the AL Central once the final out in the regular season was made. The 34-year-old hit only.167/.235/.233 in 12 games with Kansas City.

“Just so wonderful”, said the Royals’ Jarrod Dyson.

The tour includes a roundtrip flight from Kansas City global airport, three nights’ accommodations at the Radisson Hotel in Chandler, Ariz., motor coach transportation, four meals, tickets for four exhibition games and driver gratuities. It’s a bold move, but considering the general lack of outfield depth among free agents and the fact that Gordon will be 32-years-old on Opening Day in 2016, it was a safe bet to make. Dayton and I will take care of it down the road. Right now, we’re enduring and going through that portion of it right now.

With Cespedes clubbing home runs seemingly every night, Daniel Murphy emerging as a blue-chip player and captain David Wright returning from a potentially career-ending back injury, the Mets were a force to be reckoned with. World Series ratings fluctuate annually based on factors including the perceived quality of the matchup, the length of the series and the scores of the games, and those variations make the World Series ratings an unreliable guide.