"In his first public comments since being traded to the Royals last week, Jonathan Sanchez sounded as though he was ready to leave.

"I saw it coming," Sanchez said during a visit to his new baseball home Thursday, as reported by the Kansas City Star. "It's been that way since I got to the big leagues in 2006 that they wanted to trade me. Nothing came out but, every year, it was the same thing.

"It was time for me to go to a different place and another team. My name kept coming up every trading deadline. It never happened. It did now."

Otherwise, Sanchez said he was happy in San Francisco.

"They showed me everything about how to play baseball in the major leagues," he said. "I grew up from there, but now I'm going to bring everything I have (to Kansas City) to make this team better.""