Tuesday, Royals pitcher Gil Meche shocked the baseball world by announcing his retirement, thus forfeiting the last $12.4 million guaranteed to him for the final year of his five-year, $55 million contract he signed with the team back in 2007.
Now that Meche is gone, and the Royals all the sudden have their lowest payroll (by far) since GM Dayton Moore arrived, projecting somewhere in the $30 million range, the (12) million dollar question is this:
Where's that extra $12-mil going, Mr. Glass?
One thing is for sure now that the Kansas City Royals have traded away their ace starting pitcher, Zack Greinke — the team is building quite the stack of chips to play with for the future.
The only problem is, the team isn't quite ready to go all-in just yet.
In fact, you could argue the Royals have already folded for 2011, and the calendar-year won't even officially begin for another two weeks.
