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09-04-2009, 12:35 PM | #16 |
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They better blow up this roster starting in October if they're going to blame the players.
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09-04-2009, 12:38 PM | #17 |
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09-04-2009, 12:41 PM | #18 |
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Jeez. On the one hand, there's not a lot of talent on the team. Zack, Soria, Butler... I'm struggling to find anyone else who would start on a playoff caliber team (and even Butler might not, admittedly I haven't watched a Royals game in about a month). On the other hand, Hillman's made some incredibly stupid decisions with the talent that he does have.
Then there's Moore. 2 sides to his story as well. One side says that he inherited possibly the worst sports franchise in America and it will take a long time to get it to a competitive franchise. On the other, he's also made some incredibly stupid decisions when most of the time there were better options available. If there is a shakeup on the roster (and by gawd, there needs to be), the improvement needs to be great and it needs to come fast. No more Guillen's or Olivo's on the roster (anyone else notice that we're paying Olivo & Buck $8 mil combined when we could have drafted Matt Weiters and paid him the same $8 mil not to suck?). I understand that it's a small market & you can't just go sign A-Rod, but there has to be improvement. Dayton can't just keep saying "wait until Moustakas & Hosmer get to the big leagues!" |
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09-04-2009, 12:45 PM | #19 |
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At the very least they have to let Hillman finish his contract. If a guy is going to be canned after 2 years for failing to turn around that sorry bunch, good luck getting a manger worth a shit to come to KC and replace him.
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09-04-2009, 12:52 PM | #20 |
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FRANK WHITE something something bleh
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09-04-2009, 12:52 PM | #21 |
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Building from within is the only way the Royals will ever recover. Free agent moves are essentially irrelevant at this point. It doesn't matter he's brought or will bring in, they're all just bodies keeping the seats warm for guys from the farm system. The hardest thing to remember is that his first real draft with the franchise was only two years ago. So 'his' guys haven't really had time to progress through the minors yet. It's hard to be patient, I know, but, well, we'd better learn, 'cause he's going to here through at least 2014. And we'd better hope he's just as much a genious as we thought when he was hired in '06.
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09-04-2009, 01:09 PM | #22 |
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Dayton ****ing Moore makes a poor decision.
Wow. Surprising. As a GM, he's a joke, and we'll continue to suck for as long as he's here. Glass is spending enough to field a competitive team. Maybe not a championship club, but a competitive one. Yet this won't happen with Moore in charge. |
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09-04-2009, 01:10 PM | #23 |
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Hillman, IMO, is to blame for Meche's arm trouble. That alone should give Dayton pause.
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Just a guess, but he probably doesn't understand why tracking pitches might be important. |
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09-04-2009, 01:26 PM | #25 |
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Rany, as always, keeps it classy, but blisters Moore. Long update, so I'm just going to quote an excerpt and provide the link (www.ranyontheroyals.com):
But keeping the same general manager personnel in place only makes sense when your general manager knows what the hell he is doing. Frankly, the evidence of that is still lacking. We know that your general manager can spend your cash; we don’t know that he can spend it wisely. I can’t imagine that you look at the millions of dollars Moore convinced you to give Kyle Farnsworth, or Horacio Ramirez, or especially Jose Guillen, and think that you got your money’s worth. I’m sure that you see those transactions as mistakes that should not be repeated. Unfortunately, Moore’s public comments have yielded no evidence that he feels that way. To question Moore’s decisions is to doubt The Process, and if someone in the media dares to criticize any of his decisions, he risks getting shut out from the organization completely. (I’m not referring to my own situation with ballclub – I’ve heard from national media members who have had similar experiences with the team.) In all honesty, what I find more concerning than the mistakes made by the Moore administration this year is the sense of arrogance that has accompanied these decisions – an arrogance clothed in insecurity. Virtually every person who has covered the Royals regularly this season – print, radio, TV, whatever – has been struck by just how ridiculously thin-skinned the front office is. Which is a problem. Not because it makes it harder for the media to do their job (it is, but that’s not a problem for anyone but us), but because a front office that can’t handle criticism is a front office that doesn’t broker dissent. It’s a front office that’s unwilling to admit when it’s made a mistake. It’s certainly a front office that’s incapable of learning from its mistakes. This should trouble you greatly, because you’ve just promised to pay Dayton Moore a lot of money on the notion that he will learn from the mistakes he’s made this season. And my greatest worry about this extension is that Moore will regard this endorsement from his owner as a validation of The Process. Moore has defended the Royals’ performance this year as the consequence of unexpected injuries and unexpectedly poor performances, rather than as an indictment of whatever Process cooked up the idea of Mike Jacobs as an everyday first baseman or Kyle Farnsworth as a highly-compensated set-up man. Moore’s public defense of his actions is understandable; it’s not easy for a GM to admit when he’s wrong, and it’s even harder to do so without offending some of those very players he acquired. But it’s one thing to say it, and it’s another thing to believe it. I worry that, having been rewarded with a contract extension despite his track record, Moore will start to believe his own words, and assume that he earned a contract extension because of his track record. As fans, we are not privy to the conversations that you had with Moore before this contract was signed. It’s quite possible that Moore bared his soul to you, that he took full responsibility for the disastrous product he put on display this season. It’s possible that he admitted to you that he hasn’t put enough emphasis on statistical analysis, that he underestimated the importance of plate discipline, that he made a mistake in putting together an expensive bullpen full of hard throwers who don’t actually get anyone out. I can only hope he said those things to you, because he certainly won’t say those things to us. It’s not reassuring at all that in his most recent interview, he once again repeats the canard that “I know things would have been drastically different if we would have stayed healthy.” Unless Coco Crisp is the most valuable player in the history of baseball, this is simply untrue. |
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09-04-2009, 01:27 PM | #26 |
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