Buzz: Royals and Bartolo Colon

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Royals Moving Towards Bartolo Colon
Published 1/3/2008 by Mullet at FanHouse
... is spotty at best, as his 28 starts the last two seasons are less than his 33 starts in '05, when he won the Cy Young Award. If this contract is heavy on the guarantees and light on the incentives, then those Royals fans are going to go through the '08 season keeping their fingers tightly crossed and while performing some sort of ritualistic dance to keep Colon healthy. Some in the Royals front office might be learning that dance at this moment. Arm bashes all around: Metsblog, and MLB Trade Rumors   Permalink | Email ...

Thursday Morning Hot Stove Rundown
Published 1/3/2008 by Anthony De Rosa at Hot Foot
Here’s whats cooking on the Hot Stove this morning… The Yankees think they still have a shot at Johan Santana. Please, enough already. Mets Blog read in a latin newspaper that the Royals are close to signing Bartolo Colon. Keith Hernandez is being inducted into the Hall Of Fame…in Missouri. Its close to being Lima Time in Japan. Torre isn’t exactly coming to the Rocket’s defense. The Marlins are close to a deal with Jorge Cantu. ...

Royals Hot on Bartolo Colon?
Published 1/3/2008 by joe at Mets Today
According to the Mullet on AOL, who heard from MetsBlog, who heard from MLBTradeRumors, who heard from Impacto Deportivo (through Google translator), the Kansas City Royals might be about to sign Bartolo Colon — clearly one of the fattest free agent pitchers this side of Bob Wickman. Or, there could be something lost in the translation. This is what happens when there’s no real news in the blogosphere for a few days … Why the rebuilding Royals would have interest in Colon I’m not sure. My best guess is ...