Kansas City Royals

Since 2001, Redman has played in the majors with Minnesota, Detroit, Florida, Oakland and Pittsburgh. He also had a couple of brief minor league appearances sprinkled in 2001 at Edmonton and Toledo.
This season Redman, a 32-year-old left-hander, is in the Kansas City camp. The Pirates traded him to the Royals from Pittsburgh for two minor leaguers, Jonah Bayliss and Chad Blackwell on Dec. 7. It is the fifth time he has been traded in five years.
“You have an off-season home,” said Redman, who lives in Tulsa. “We don’t buy homes in every city we play with. I’d have a lot of homes if I did.
“When you move around, it means a team wants you. I’m keeping an open mind. I’d like to stick around whether here or somewhere. I can be a free agent after this year, and I’d like to stick around somewhere for three or four years.”
Redman’s journeys have included playing on a bad Tigers’ team in 2002 and winning a World Series ring the next year with the Florida Marlins. He started Game 2 of the World Series and lost to the New York Yankees. The Marlins traded him to the Athletics after the season. The Pirates obtained him in a trade after the 2004 season.
He plunged back into the depths in 2005, playing for the last-place Pirates. In his first 14 Pirates’ starts, Redman was a respectable 4-4 with a 2.80 ERA. In his final 16 starts, Redman was 1-11 with a 7.20 ERA. The Pirates scored just 3.23 runs in his 30 starts, the second lowest run support in the majors. To cap off a 5-15 season, he suffered a fractured left index finger while bunting on Sept. 12 at St. Louis and missed the remainder of the season.
Redman is joining another team that has been bad in recent years. The Royals have lost 100 or more games in three of the past seasons, including a franchise-record 106 defeats in 2005.
“What I can bring is to take the ball every fifth day for Kansas City, make 30-32 starts and shoot for 200 innings,” Redman said.
The Royals want Redman to pitch deep into games to preserve their bullpen, which was overworked last year. Redman, however, worked just 178 1/3 innings last season and only once in his career has he pitched more than 200 innings. That was 203 innings in 2002 with the Tigers.