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Rick Ankiel Signing Confusing To All, Even Joe Posnanski

by Chris Haines

Royals fans are appropriately confused about the Royals signing Rick Ankiel. Okay, so most baseball fans are confused about it. Count the great Joe Posnanski among those bewildered with the signing:

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Ankiel. Royals. So confused.

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↵Sums up the signing pretty perfectly if you ask me. And if one of the all time great baseball writers and authorities on the Royals is confused by it, what chance do the rest of us have of understanding the move?

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