Pete, that was my brah voice. My homer voice. That voice contains sarcasm.

thats also just one data point.

We'd probably have to have some kind of huge study spanning many years over every team, and see if there's a correlation between hitting coach and performance in the first 2 or 3 years, independent of any particular team's ability to draft well/poorly. You'd probably have to say "ok, if you OPS .850 in your last year of AAA, we expect X, if you OPS .800 we expect Y, etc. Do we have a few hitting coaches who are able to consistently beat those numbers in a statistically significant way". That would be a ton of work.

Sorry, my sarcasm meter has been broke all day

Yost is nothing special. But the biggest problems with this team is owner and gm.

Dayton Moore = fraud
Glass = Who are the Royals again?
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Encouragement is great. Acting like 11-year-old jackasses every time you hit a single is not.

We should fly a banner...

What happened to the Royals rep threads?

Firing Ned Yost does nothing. He just manages the players. It's the guy who supplies the players to the major league roster that needs his feet held to the fire.

Just be patient.
This may be a ten year plan....

The good news is, one day we'll see Gordon, Moose, Hosmer and Salvy all tearing it up at the same time for an entire year.

Bad news is, they'll be playing for the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox and Detroit.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I disagree with that whole "come on, get yourself thrown out" concept.

Getting yourself thrown out of the game doesn't do anything. I don't believe the players will perform any better if you get tossed. I DO believe in running out there when your player is carping at the umpire, but thats just to save your player from getting tossed. Then, go ahead and defend your player's honor for a while, and leave.

Losing your mind isn't going to cause the umps to change their mind. Like today, on that Frenchy foul ball ruled strike 3, Yost ran out there to save Frenchy, then asked the ump to check with the other umps. Apparently he wasn't 100% sure of his call, so he agreed to check. If he would have folded his arms and refused, getting yourself tossed wont do anything. Then when they reversed, Socia went out there screaming like a maniac, making himself look like a fool. What does getting tossed gain his team?

Trade Butler,Salvy, Shields, Hosmer, Moose, Gordon, Cain, Escobar, and Santana for prospects. We'll have a fire sale to beat all fire sales. In the trades, we acquire many promising prospects and the Royals are touted as having the best farm system in baseball.

Prospects appear to be developing in the minors in late 2015 to early 2016... Fans get a little excited.

Prospects make it to the MLB club in September 2016 and appear to be good players. Fans are certain the playoff drought will end next season!

Next season comes and pretty much everyone flops. They are all traded for prospects.

Rinse and repeat

:LOL:

Fire Yost and appoint Billy Butler as Player/Manager.

I think he determines the direction and philosophy of the team and also determines who the coaches are.