There are virtually no transactions going on in baseball these days due to the lockout, so today I thought I’d look back at a big transaction the Royals made on this day, fifteen years ago. On December 13, 2006, the Royals signed free agent pitcher Gil Meche to a five-year, $55 million deal, a deal that tied for the largest deal in club history at the time.
Dayton Moore was a little over six months into his new job as Royals general manager when he arrived at the 2006 Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida in December.