Just how bad has Dayton Moore been? The numbers.

[FringeNC]

In a statistical analysis at 538 of how great Billy Beane has been, we can see just how bad Dayton Moore (and to a lessor extent, Allard Baird) has been. Look at the last graphic at this link:



http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...r-billy-beane/

While it would have cost a team $1.4 extra billion to get the number of wins Billy Beane has generated since 2000, the Royals should have been able to generate the same number of wins we've had for $800 million less than what we have paid. Worst in all of baseball.

[Ebolapox]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Great article about the premier management talent in all of sports, pro or college. I've often said the same thing, that the GM is worth infinitely more than any player (outside a few elites maybe like Trout)....so why aren't they paid any more than Tim Collins????

pretty much... I don't agree with you very often, but I don't understand why teams like the yankees and dodgers never backed up the brinks truck for a guy like beane or epstein. it's obvious the effect these guys have on their organization (they're, honestly, by FAR the reason that these teams have succeeded), pay them as such

[L.A. Chieffan]

Billy Beane is playing chess

[duncan_idaho]

Basically what I'd expect. We're talking about a 13 year sample at this point, 14 seasons, and for 7 of those seasons, the Royals were shepherded by the worst combination of ownership and GM work in major league baseball.

That's a big, big hole to climb out of, especially if you're not spending like crazy to get there.

It would be interesting to see where the Royals rank if the sample size was narrowed to the last 2-3 years (when Moore supposedly had his long-term plan in place). I expect KC would still be below-average but not quite so horribly below average.

[Fansy the Famous Bard]

Just how bad has Dayton Moore been? The numbers.