Aging Kc Reliever/ closer strahm.
Former royal, now nationals starter Foster Griffen. Griffen is a 7 pitch weak contact guy that seem to have discovered his niche?

Both of these guys are cheap adds. Fits the current ownership biz midel and imo, fit into the "last chance Gas" feel if the TC clubhouse. Hopefully. TC ownership learned a valuable lesson in the Josh Donaldson FA add disaster. You dont bring a prima donna ego into a "we are collectively disrespected" environment and expect good thing to happen.

Sure sure, need, star power/ tix sales and ability to get a deal done are a big part if adding/ subtracting. The biggest part and its rarely discussed. Does the new personality match up with the existing clubhouse personality.

Famiusly, Reggie Jackson signing with the yankees was the greatest lickeroom add in mlb history. Reggie loved the Soitlight. Relished in attention. Good or bad. And the clubhouse was feeling brow beaten by the NY press as well as Bug George, the Yankee owner.


The flip side?
Ty Cobb Rogers Hornsby and John (off his)Rocker.

Hers an interesting read of some of the worst teamates a team could add. I always wondered why Milton Bradley was kidnapped away from wrigley is secrecy. Lol. Now i know.

The stuff doesnt leak out like it once did. Leakers in the social media era? They dont retain many contacts.

Back to Josh Primadonaldson.
Clubhouse cancer?
Theres a tell. A fan needs to learn to read. When you have half as many teams as years played on your resume? And that resume includes impressive stat lines? Its not the contract demand or in field playing getting you run out of town.
Josh had 7 team in 13 seasons. 9 of which were early on in Oakland & Toronto.

Young, cheap & productive? Teams hope and try to salvage a talent tied to a giant abbrassive ego.
Then comes the moment when Ricker or Bradley punches out the manager in the lockeroom, and ... 5,6 or 7 new teams become the path of Kid Kancers future. In his wake. Destroying the clubhouse unity for extra years past his playing time in each city.

In the NFL, Brandon Aiyuk is next man up on the Kid kancer parade... Cue it up, BimSkalaBim "pete needs a friend"... 🎵 Will he ever learn 🎶...