Willie Bloomquist Signs With Royals

[Rennie Stennett]

"He's an on-base guy, a speed-type player and a hustler,'' Royals general manager Dayton Moore told MLB.com. "He's a Craig Counsell-type player who really plays hard, hustles, and knows how to play

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[d32123]

One of the most underrated players in the game. Good move for Kansas City.

[mrakbaseball]

One of the most underrated players in the game. Good move for Kansas City.

It's a bad move. Bloomquist is awful. They should have signed him to minor league deal with a spring training invite. Dayton Moore is not having a good off-season.

Rennie Stennett has been MIA for awhile and it takes a Bloomquist signing to get him out of hibernation.

[KCGHOST]

Simply dreadful. A two year deal ($3M total) for a quy who has a career .262/321/323 line for an OPS of .644 over 1389 PA's. What is the point in this guy?? GMDM has just been awful this off-season. And yet we still have TPJ and Ross Gload on the major league roster. This has to be the end for Esteban German, though.

Tell me Royals fans which group of players would you rather have?? Group one is Coco Crisp, Mike Jacobs, Kyle Farnsworth, Horacio Ramirez, and Bloomquist. Group two is Ramon Ramirez, Leo Nunez, Kila Ka'aihue and $15M (to spent on useful players). GMDM thought Group One was the answer. Good Grief.

[Trickyhop]

Wait, Horacio Ramirez is still playing professional baseball?!

[mrakbaseball]

One of the most underrated players in the game. Good move for Kansas City.

Willie Bloomquist is the symbol of post-2001 Seattle baseball failure. How a player with minimal ability like Bloomquist managed to occupy a big league roster spot for 6+ seasons is one of the universe's biggest mysteries.

[d32123]

Willie Bloomquist is the symbol of post-2001 Seattle baseball failure. How a player with minimal ability like Bloomquist managed to occupy a big league roster spot for 6+ seasons is one of the universe's biggest mysteries.

He can play every position besides pitcher and catcher and I'll admit his hitting isn't spectacular, but it's passable. Perhaps 'good move' is a bit over the top but so is your negative take on this guy. The Mariners have had much bigger failures, considering that he's a utility player.

[mrakbaseball]

He can play every position besides pitcher and catcher and I'll admit his hitting isn't spectacular, but it's passable. Perhaps 'good move' is a bit over the top but so is your negative take on this guy. The Mariners have had much bigger failures, considering that he's a utility player.

Nah, he's a bad player that represented all that went wrong with the Seattle organization as a whole. He can't hit at all. .285 SLG. The Royals signed a pinch runner to a $ 3 mil contract. He can't hit or play defense. Bad move, bad player.

[Rennie Stennett]

Nah, he's a bad player that represented all that went wrong with the Seattle organization as a whole. He can't hit at all. .285 SLG. The Royals signed a pinch runner to a $ 3 mil contract. He can't hit or play defense. Bad move, bad player.

calling Willie a symbol of post 2001 Mariner baseball is the same as saying that someone is a poster child for birth control. It is, in both accounts, unfair to say.

As mentioned above, Willie is a utility player, pinch runner, but when finally getting the chance to play full time all he did was have a OBP in the (.380's) and steal some bags. Everyone thought for sure that he would go to the NL but look: he's in the AL. Willie will get a shot at second base this Spring. Way to go Willie !

[mrakbaseball]

"He's an on base guy", Dayton Moore on new signee Bloomquist.

Absolutely disgraceful. Describing a guy with a career OBP of .322 as an "on base guy".
Investing over $11 mil this off-season in dung like Farnsworth, Jacobs, HoRam and now WFB is inexcusable. I feel for the Royals fans.
Bloomquist will be DFA before the All-Star break. Not a good player at all.

[SwissRedSoxFan]

I just don't see how this organization is ever going to win...

It's really sad. You just can't tell me, that you are not going to find anybody in your minor league system, who can field an infield position and have an .322 OBP at the MLB level. Even if this is going to be an .300 OBP its fine because it won't cost you any money.

Horacio Ramirez is another terrible player. I thought, the Royals wanted to add more OBP? Well Bloomquist and Jacobs are the opposite of that.

The Royals did a fine job to rebuild their bullpen and now they traded it away for not much. Sad story.

Plus you guys have a surplus at 1st and traded for Jacobs. That I just don't get. You just could have waited for Kila to develop in a major threat. Because with or without Jacobs you will not be winning more games that losing.

Hard time to be a Royal-fan.

[KCFAN11]

Tell me Royals fans which group of players would you rather have?? Group one is Coco Crisp, Mike Jacobs, Kyle Farnsworth, Horacio Ramirez, and Bloomquist. Group two is Ramon Ramirez, Leo Nunez, Kila Ka'aihue and $15M (to spent on useful players). GMDM thought Group One was the answer. Good Grief.

Sadly its true...i think no doubt about it the royals planned to spend money this off season but they did it in a bad way... Coco Crisp is a good ball player but he doesnt diserve what were paying for him. Spending money on Horacio was a dumb move because we have not seen enough of him to know how good or bad he really is. If the royals wanted to spend money they did it in the wrong way.