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Originally Posted by Nightfyre
I don't understand how cutting bait with Yuni and Mijares makes them look like a bush-league operation. Sure signing Yuni was, but clearing him off the roster is no big deal. Further, the cash they allocate to him didn't come out of OUR pockets, even if it was a waste of a scarce resource. They got a ton of good productivity out of Mijares and now just need room on the forty man roster. 
Dayton Moore is ridiculous at identifying hitting talent. I mean, you are talking about the guy who brought Andrus, Escobar and Perez into the league and chose Hosmer, Moose and got the green-light to sign Myers and Starling (who is hitting really well since the Royals retooled his swing.)
He also consistently acquires good value in free agency and flips it into prospects.
Our pitching development shows a systemic weakness, IMO. It has failed to develop five or six extremely talented starting pitchers starting at AA. So what DM needed to do is hire someone who can fix that, and maybe he has in Rick Knapp, but it will take time for him to implement his system and show results in pitching development.
Listening to Yost it sounded like, Mijares and Yuni are too worried about their playing time and contracts rather than turning the losing culture within the organization around. Make examples of them. I like it. At least you're getting something positive out of worthless players.
I'm not saying Moore is perfect - far from it. But I do believe he can build a champion here if he gets some help acquiring/developing starting pitching and gets over Frenchy. And I also think his ability to identify hitting prospects is irreplaceable, and was it not you who stated that all other things equal, you take hitting prospects due to their better rate of translation? |
Again, which one of those elite hitting prospects were acquired because of the astute eye of Moore? Moose and Perez would be your best evidence for such a case.
This aside, anyone who follows the draft through various publications and web sources would have picked Myers. Hell, there were some of us begging for him in the second when he was dropping because of signability.
Same with Starling. If my dumb ass is trumpeting him long before the draft, I'm not incredibly impressed with Moore's ability to "evaluate" that talent.
Signing Yuni--for a second time no less--is embarrassing. It shows the organization embraces '75-levels of analysis. Mijares, according to the Star article, was also let go b/c of $.
If the Giants were willing to put in a waiver claim, I have a hard time believing that they wouldn't have traded something, anything, before the deadline. This much seems pretty obvious.
But let's fire a first base coach. Can't have anyone questioning The Process, and let's make sure that Frenchy is in the lineup--since DM's eye for hitting talent must extend here, too--and let's keep losing.
Can't wait to hear how '16 is really the year.
The Royals will never win shit under DM's tenure. He's a terrible, terrible GM. While I appreciate the thoughtfulness in your post, I disagree with it almost entirely.