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Not everyone impressed with Dayton Moore
A Royal Dump
by Dave Cameron - January 9, 2009 Man, I feel bad for Royals fans. Today, they announced a two year contract for Willie Bloomquist, worth a total of $3 million. That gives us this unholy quarter of transactions: Kyle Farnsworth - 2 years, $9 million, 2006 to 2008: 0.1 wins above replacement Mike Jacobs - 1 year, $3.5 million, 2006 to 2008: 0.7 wins above replacement Horacio Ramirez - 1 year, $1.9 million, 2006 to 2008: 0.2 wins above replacement Willie Bloomquist - 2 years, $3 million, 2006 to 2008: 0.3 wins above replacement Those Win Value totals are not per year, but three year totals. Over the last three seasons, that foursome has been worth 1.3 wins combined. That’s 12 player-seasons to accumulate just over one marginal win. If you were trying to scrape up examples of major league players who represent replacement level performance, you couldn’t do much better than this group. That those four will earn a collective $11.4 million in 2009 is pretty staggering. $11.4 million for four guys who, if everything goes right, will add something like one win to the Royals roster next year. $11.4 million for one win. I guess it’s better than the $12 million they spent to get 0.2 wins from Jose Guillen last winter, but that’s in the same way that getting stabbed is better than getting shot. Dayton Moore came from Atlanta with a strong record of player development. He’s going to have be a Hall of Fame caliber GM at cultivating talent from within his own organization to overcome what can only be described as a devastatingly poor ability to evaluate major league players. Really, in a market that could only be described as the best buyer’s market we’ve seen in a long time, Dayton Moore has still managed to squander money on unproductive players who do nothing to help his team win. That’s amazing. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/a-royal-dump/ |
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01-10-2009, 10:23 AM | #31 | |
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It's great in theory to say we should have just signed Burrell, Dunn, or Manny, but those players simply are not going to sign with the KC Royals at this point. Hell, we had to overpay just to sign Jose Guillen. So it comes down to sitting on that cash and doing nothing, or using available payroll to sign other players that will add depth and improve the team. I prefer the latter. |
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01-10-2009, 03:12 PM | #32 | |
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And yes, I'd rather save the cash than, as the article states, pay "unproductive players who do nothing to help his team win." |
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01-10-2009, 04:45 PM | #33 |
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01-10-2009, 04:50 PM | #34 |
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You are a moron. The teams record has gotten better every year since he's been here. That's improvement. That's what he was hired to do. You don't turn around a small market baseball team in a year or two. Seriously just shut up if you don't know what you're talking about.
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01-10-2009, 04:59 PM | #35 | |
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And I don't usually pick apart every move the Royals make, and I am a huge fan of Dayton, but this offseason has been puzzling to say the least. |
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01-10-2009, 05:10 PM | #36 | |
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He's signed a couple guys I really questioned... Kyle Davies for one... but Davies turned into a decent pitcher by the 2nd half of last season so I think Dayton is still to be trusted. Even a hard core Cardinal fan I work with thinks Davies has a bright future. People just have to be freakin patient... but I know that's not how it works in football and that's what this site is made of... football fans. Dayton has done a good job of finding contributors without breaking the bank. I think he's one of the best GM's in baseball. He doesn't have a NY budget to work with. Give it a couple, three more years. I think we're heading in the right direction. |
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01-10-2009, 05:13 PM | #37 |
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And this is the type of attitude that's preventing you from reaching your potential as a poster. Trusting a professional GM more than yourself...unbelievable.
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01-10-2009, 05:16 PM | #38 | |
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my thing though is throwing medium range money at guys who are scrap heap type of players. The guys like Bloomquist, Farnsworth, last year Tomko and Yabuta. Those are just bad deals IMO. No matter what your market. I would just much rather go young instead of playing these guys and then use the money we are spending on those bad contracts and get some impact guys. |
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01-10-2009, 05:17 PM | #40 | |
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No matter what happens, even this year... Dayton will and should eventually be judged about how these draft classes do. That's the biggest change he's made according to just about everyone. We spent a baseball record on draft picks this year.. and overall we're actually paying market value for late round guys, foreign players, etc. But those aren't going to be instant results. |
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01-10-2009, 05:20 PM | #41 | |
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I agree with that, and that's why I'm most excited about the direction. I just hope we start to see some of those results. I would also like us to sign more free agents that are those type of guys. Young, high upside types. Last year, we throw all this money at Guillen, Tomko, and Yabuta among others and meanwhile, the White Sox are signing young high upside guys like Alexi Ramirez and Quentin. |
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01-10-2009, 05:22 PM | #42 | |
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I'm guessing we'd have to do about the same with any front-line FA. Would Burrell be worth it? Not sure... tk13 and others are right about the draft. One thing: we're paying well beyond market value in the later rounds. This is a great sign, and if Moore and his staff have been making the right picks, the FA market will soon start to open up to us a bit more. |
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01-10-2009, 05:27 PM | #43 | |
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When you have guys on your team that obviously aren't going to be stars... German, Callaspo, etc... and you can't sign a guy like Furcal because of money, then you see something in a player like Bloomquist and take a chance. The money isn't big and it may work out at 2nd. Thus is the connundrum of being a small market/low budget team. You do what you can (Jacobs, Crisp) and then try to fill holes(Bloomquist, Farnsworth). It takes some luck but the team is getting better and I believe we have every reason to believe they will be better this year than last. If anything I want more pitching at this point... as in a starter. |
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