Royals (PS4)

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SYSTEM: PlayStation 4, and maybe some Vita.

DIFFICULTY: Veteran, I think, so far.

ROSTERS: OSFM Opening Day, downloaded 5/4/14.

CONTROL: 30-team, out of necessity.

QUICK COUNTS: On. But not nuts about this disabling trophies.

PETE ROSE: Still banned, you guys. It's out of my hands.

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2014

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2014 recap:

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2014 Draft Class

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Rd. 1, Pick 16 -

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The Royals aren't a landfill, are they?
K.C. gets prospects, but takes on garbage in the deal.

Braves G.M. Frank Wren (pictured), announces Uggla-for-Infante trade.

In the hours before Frank Wren met with the media to officially announce the trade, he was receiving praise from Braves fans on the internet and on talk radio.

"We had a big, smelly Hefty Bag full of Uggla," an Atlanta sports radio host remarked, "and we needed to dump it somewhere. Thank God for the Royals."

Dan Uggla, signed through the 2015 season, had become wildly unpopular among Braves fans since November of 2010 when the team traded Omar Infante and a reliever to acquire him..

A little more than three years later, Infante and Uggla were once again traded for each other.

Atlanta included a couple of decent, albeit somewhat advanced (a polite word for "old") prospects in the deal. 2B Tommy La Stella and RHP J.R. Graham, 25 and 24 years old respectively, were dangled as bait to convince Kansas City to take Uggla's horrendous contract and eroded skillset off their hands.

"I hate the spin people have put on this," Braves general manager Frank Wren said following the announcement of the trade. "Obviously Dan's time here didn't go as perfectly as we'd all have liked. But it's not as if we were looking for a trap door to shove him out of. We like Dan. I like Dan. I like him as a person and as a player."

Wren went on to explain: "The Braves organization in 2010 was in a different place, compared to now. In 2010, we needed his pop, we valued his presence. That equation changed. That's why we made the trade. Dan has value, and this wasn't a salary dump by any means. Dan Uggla isn't trash and Kansas City isn't anyone's landfill."

To his credit, Kansas City General Manager Dayton Moore didn’t bother trying to convince anyone that Atlanta’s trash is his treasure. “This trade’s not about Uggla,” he admitted. “We’ll bite the bullet on Uggla, because we think La Stella and Graham will still be helping us years after Dan’s contract comes off the books. Come ask me about it again in five years.”