All decade disaster team

There have been several decade retrospectives floating around so I thought I'd do one too but with a twist, mine is a team of players who had no business putting on a Royals uniform. You know what I'm talking about, players whose signing made you wince and then whose performance made you sick. These are just my opinions and you may disagree (and maybe rightfully so since there was plenty of suck to choose from) but I think some of them would probably be a consensus pick as worst Royal of the decade.

C - Benito Santiago
Signed as a free agent after the 2003 season he was 39 years old on opening day. An injury cut short his season and he was eventually shipped to Pittsburgh for Leo Nunez.

Year	PA	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS+
2004	189	6	23	.274	.312	.434	91

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1B - Ross Gload
He could have been a useful bench player capable of providing value as a pinch hitter or backup first baseman but he instead would set career highs in PA's two years in a row.

Year	PA	AB	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS+
2007	346	320	7	51	.288	.318	.441	98
2008	418	388	3	37	.273	.317	.348	78

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2B - Tony Graffanino
This one might be just me but I never took a liking to Graff. I realize he wasn't awful but I just couldn't stand watching him play.

Year	PA	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS+
2004	314	3	26	.263	.332	.335	74
2005	217	3	18	.298	.377	.393	107
2006	250	5	32	.268	.346	.409	94

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SS - Neifi Perez
He was Tony Pena Jr. before being Tony Pena Jr. was cool.

Year	PA	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS+
2001	220	1	12	.241	.277	.302	49
2002	585	3	37	.236	.260	.303	44

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OF - Chuck Knoblauch
He was so bad for KC that his career ended at the age of 34. I'm still trying to figure out why he was ever signed by the Royals to begin with.

Year	PA	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS+
2002	336	6	22	.210	.284	.300	50

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OF - Juan Gonzalez
Another player signed during that stellar offseason after the 2003 season. He was brought in to replace Raul Ibanez because KC didn't want to give Raul that third year, sigh. Juan was gone it seems just as quickly as he arrived. His bat speed was considerably slower than the year before and frankly he just never seemed like he was ever interested.

Year	PA	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS+
2004	138	5	17	.276	.326	.441	96

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OF - Terrence Long
I had actually repressed the memory of him ever playing for KC. Man that 2005 outfield was brutal.

Year	PA	HR	RBI	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS+
2005	489	6	53	.279	.321	.378	87

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SP - Sidney Ponson
It amazes me that Moore thought KC could contend with Ponson starting the season as the #4 guy in the rotation. Ponson wasn't merely bad, he was apocalyptically bad.

Year	W	L	ERA	IP	BB	SO	ERA+	WHIP
2009	1	7	7.36	58.2	25	32	60	1.773

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RP - Albie Lopez
The league hit .383/.468/.692 off Lopez in 2003. He gave up 29 earned runs in his final 11 innings and 16.3 hits per nine for the year, he actually makes Ponson look like Greinke.

Year	W	L	ERA	IP	BB	SO	ERA+	WHIP
2003	4	2	12.71	22.2	17	15	39	2.559

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I didn't have a third baseman because I don't think that position was ever dreadful during the decade.

So these are my picks, who do you think were the decades worst?