EbbyCalvin
02-12-2005, 05:05 PM
The Royals will pay Affeldt what they think he's worth in 2005 ($0.95 million). Neither side moved off of thier figure. In the end, Affeldt was probably hurt by his injury problems (blister and oblique) that caused him to miss considerable time. Some may say that the Royals should have just given him the extra $250,000 that he wanted, but why? The Royals probably made him a somewhere between offer, but it seemed like Jeremy was taking the stance that this was the Royals way of showing him what they thought of him, like he was putting the ball entirely in the team's court. Affeldt probably could have come off of his figure some, but seemed unwilling to.