The hot-stove talk says the Royals are interested in Jose Guillen, a tantrum-prone slugger who has spent time in eight different organizations.
If the Royals import Guillen’s right-handed stick, Dayton Moore, the team’s general manager, stands to take a credibility hit. Since taking over in 2006, Moore has spoken frequently about building a team of upstanding citizens. “I would not hire someone unless I believed in his character,” Moore told Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski a year ago. “I would not draft or sign anyone unless I believed in his character. I learned that lesson a long time ago. We will have a team Kansas City can be proud of, I promise you that.”
Moore’s “promise” will feel a little cheap, however, if he were to add Guillen’s lifetime .447 slugging average to the lineup. Witness these events in the combustible player’s past:
June 25, 2003 – Putting up the best numbers of his career in Cincinnati, Guillen pouts when Ken Griffey Jr. returns from injury, reducing his playing time. “I just don’t care any more,” he tells a beat writer. Seeing his name scratched from the lineup on another occasion, Guillen throws bats in the clubhouse.
September 25, 2004 -- Playing for the Angels, Guillen tosses a helmet in the direction of manager Mike Scioscia upon being removed for a pinch runner. The Angels, who are in the heat of a pennant race, suspend Guillen for the remainder of the season, including the playoffs. He is traded at season’s end.
June 14, 2005 – Frank Robinson, the manager of the Washington Nationals, Guillen’s new team, asks the umpires to examine Angels pitcher Brendan Donnelly’s glove. Donnelly is ejected when pine tar is found on his mitt. Guillen, who later acknowledges that he had tipped off Robinson, needs to be restrained by his teammates as his current and former skippers argue about the inspection. After the game, Guillen says Scioscia “can go to hell.”
July 5, 2005 – Guillen is hit with a pitch by Pedro Martinez of the New York Mets. When teammate Estaban Loiaza fails to retaliate by throwing at a Mets hitter, Guillen confronts the pitcher and catcher Brian Schneider in the dugout.
September 14, 2005 – After getting ejected for complaining about strike calls, Guillen hurls a helmet, four bats, batting gloves and a shin guard on to the playing field.
April 11, 2007 – Now pitching for the Red Sox, Donnelly strikes out Guillen on three pitches. Taking a long route back to the dugout, Guillen gestures twice at Donnelly with a bat in his right hand and is ejected.
November 6, 2007 – The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Guillen ordered $19,000 worth of steroids and human growth hormone from an anti-aging clinic between 2002 to 2005. – David Martin
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