SURPRISE, Ariz. | Jose Guillen strolled through the Royals&#8217; clubhouse Tuesday morning wearing a wide smile and greeting everyone in sight. Later, he prepped for his first meeting with reporters by donning a shaggy black wig.</p><p>This much we&#8217;ve established from the Royals&#8217; first day of full-squad workouts: The new $36 million man loves the spotlight and is fully primed to inject some much-needed life into a run-starved lineup.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be here for a long time,&#8221; he vowed. &#8220;This is going to be my new family. I&#8217;ve got to make sure I get to know all of them and do the best I can to help this team to win.&#8221;</p><p>There is baggage. Let&#8217;s address that, too. Guillen, at 31, has authored some memorable confrontations throughout his 11 previous big-league seasons. He is also facing a 15-day suspension to start this season resulting from violations in baseball&#8217;s drug policy.</p><p>The Royals understand it all but seem determined to offer a fresh start. Brian Bannister&#8217;s reaction was typical as Guillen introduced himself around: &#8220;Glad to have you on our side now.&#8221;</p><p>Guillen&#8217;s smile widened further when reminded that he was brought in &#8212; at $12 million for each of the next three years &#8212; to be &#8220;the guy,&#8221; the big run-production bat in the middle of the lineup.</p><p>&#8220;I appreciate the opportunity they&#8217;ve given to me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And there&#8217;s no pressure. I&#8217;m just going to go out and play my game. They know what they got. They know the type of player I am.&#8221;</p><p>Throw out 2006, when major elbow surgery limited him to 69 games at Washington, and Guillen has averaged 26 homers and 91 RBIs in his last four full seasons while batting .294.</p><p>The Royals will take that guy over the next four seasons, no questions asked.</p><p>&#8220;That bat is going to produce some runs,&#8221; center fielder David DeJesus said. &#8220;He&#8217;s the kind of guy who likes to joke around, but when it comes time to getting things done, he&#8217;s a guy you can rely on.</p><p>&#8220;If we can keep him healthy all year, I think he is definitely one of those guys who will produce runs. He&#8217;s produced runs pretty much all of his career.&#8221;</p><p>That production wasn&#8217;t enough to prevent friction at previous stops in his career, which is why &#8212; at least in part &#8212; the Royals are Guillen&#8217;s ninth organization over the last decade.</p><p>His past includes numerous run-ins with managers, almost always related to playing time, and a knack for angering his own pitchers by criticizing them for a perceived failure to protect their hitters.</p><p>The Royals have already seen that Guillen.</p><p>He balked last month at the possibility of shifting to left field after playing the last three seasons in right. Club officials acquiesced and scrapped the idea. Guillen is now viewed as the regular right fielder.</p><p>&#8220;I know about Jose&#8217;s past,&#8221; manager Trey Hillman said, &#8220;and maybe I haven&#8217;t spoken about this enough. The one thing I&#8217;m very encouraged by is he&#8217;s always had passion. Sometimes, the passion is misconstrued as a bad attitude. I don&#8217;t see it that way.</p><p>&#8220;I would &#8230; rather have a guy you need to help continue to control his presentation than a guy where you&#8217;ve got to apply a cattle prod to his rear end to get him going. It&#8217;s a lot easier proposition to help tame someone with passion.&#8221;</p><p>Guillen dodged questions regarding his suspension, which appears related to allegations raised last November by the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em> that he purchased $19,000 in steroids and human growth hormone from 2003 to 2005.