Let’s see if I can come up with a post every day of the rest of the offseason. Today, there are 31 days left until Opening Day on April 6.
Por que no?
31
is the number of starts Jeff Francis made for Kansas City last year, which I realized shortly after reading Nick Scott’s detailed look at why the Royals let Francis go but threw loads of cash at Bruce Chen.
Nick argues that it would have been cheap to keep Francis around, as he is currently on a minor league deal elsewhere. And he is probably almost certainly a better pitcher than Chen.
Of course, we’ve all looked at the 2012 starting rotation from every angle we can. A lot can happen between today and one month (!!) from now, and the rotation is certainly not set in stone. What would it have hurt to have Jeff Francis in that mix? I would rather have Francis as a rotation candidate than O’Sullivan, or Mazzaro, or Mendoza, etc.
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