Ryan Madsen make KC Royals 25 man roster

[disarcina]

Ryan Madsen, who signed that big contract to be the Halos closer about what? three years ago now ??  Has made the opening day roster of the AL Defending Champion KC Royals.

 

I don't think Madsen has pitched in a MLB game in some three years.

 

I know we had a mini-debate here on this site as to whether Madsen ever even threw ONE warm up pitch on the sidelines in ST for the Angels before going on the DL.

[ScottT]

Good for him.  Tough to do after missing that much time. 

[disarcina]

kind of amazing because much of baseball marveled at the depth of the KC pen and how good it was in 2014 and is now --- and Madsen -- out of MLB for three years -- makes the team?

[AngelsFaninGA]

Obligatory "He'll have a 0.30 ERA against us and a 6.30 ERA against everyone else" comment. 

[Jeff Fletcher]

It wasn't really a "big" contract. It was $3.5M

[Taylor]

He'll have a 0.29 ERA against us and a 6.31 ERA against everyone else.

[Hollyw00d]

Obligatory "He'll have a 0.30 ERA against us and a 6.30 ERA against everyone else" comment.

The sad part is, that probably will really happen

[fan_since79]

It's "Madson", by the way, not Madsen.

 

And he hasn't thrown a pitch in the majors since 2011.

[Ohtaniland]

It wasn't really a "big" contract. It was $3.5M

Arte gave him $9M to do nothing. Cool gig.

[NJHalo]

Madson production > Hamilton production

[Brandon]

Low risk, high reward for the Royals.

 

Essentially what we did as well, he just never saw the field.

 

Best of luck to him.