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Royals get Soler, reduce payroll at Winter Meetings

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"It was pretty clear that Wade Davis was going to be the player most attractive to other teams at this particular stage of the market," Moore said. "… But we like that we have some control with Soler over the next four years. Right field has several players that are perhaps hitting free agency after the 2017 season, so this was an important deal for us.

"It was a tough deal to trade an All-Star closer in Wade Davis, someone who has been so instrumental to our success. We certainly wouldn't have been able to win a World Series without Wade.