Dayton Moore and Trey Hillman Need to Stop Lecturing, Start Bringing In Better Players
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Dayton Moore and Trey Hillman Need to Stop Lecturing, Start Bringing In Better Players Trey Hillman and Dayton Moore have lectured us all season. Their mistakes, we’ve been repeatedly told, are actually our mistakes. Their failings, we’ve been repeatedly told, are really just our failings. See, the fans and the media have both a moral and an intellectual shortcoming: we’re too impatient and we’re too dumb. Since this summer, the Royals have consistently pushed a bizarre social criticism on the public, claiming that Americans are too into instant gratification, which has poisoned ...
Playoff Applesauce - Mets prefer Holliday, Phillie day game upsets many, Vazquez not likely to be traded
Amazin' Avenue —
... tickets before the time was announced. It's pretty much the risk that you take though. Someone was going to get "stuck" with the day game.
You had better not get your hopes up for getting Javier Vazquez from the Braves.
A 12-year-old girl who caught Ryan Howard's 200th career home run ball has won a lawsuit against the Phillies and has re-acquired the baseball.
Around MLB
Kansas City's player personnel team has gotten really philosophical.
If UZR and defensive metrics are so ...
A couple early October links
The Pipeline —
... Will of Royals Review knocks it out of the park with this one....if it turns out I don't do RotF reports next season, it'll be more because of the GM and manager's attitude and condescension than anything, as I've already stated. It's one thing for the Royals to be bad, but to be bad and then have this front office take the PR tack it has, that's another. I have a hard time devoting an hour or two each (or almost each) day to that kind of organization. I can't just unplug that part of my brain and forge ahead. ...
Royals Review To KC Management : Enough With The Condescension
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... . “It all goes back to what we all get judged on — wins and losses — because that’s what counts in our world and in our culture of immediate satisfaction and what have you done for me today.” Having sat through another terrible season, Royals Review considers the comments from Hillman, a former skipper for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, and his equally defensive GM Dayton Moore and replies, “we’ve seen the phrase ‘instant gratification’ from both men. Obviously, anyone walking down the placid, slow-moving, ...
Friday Filberts
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
... . Attention, Dayton Moore and Trey Hillman: consider yourself p3wn3d, officially . Worst managerial hiring of the last 25 years? Well, that's a hard one to figure. But the Dugout Central staff sure gives it ...
Link Dump: Joba, Posada, Jeter, Oliver, A-Rod
River Avenue Blues —
... essentially eliminating the “no agent rule” for amateurs? Well, the two sides reached a settlement that a) sends $750,000 of the NCAA’s money to Oliver, and b) reinstates the “no agent rule.” So much for that. Apparently kids fresh out of high school are supposed to negotiation multi-million contracts on their own. Oliver was the Tigers’ second round pick (#58 overall) last year, and signed for a well over-slot $1.495M bonus.
This isn’t Yankee related, but it’s a great read from a very, very frustrated Royals ...
Why Your Stadium Sucks: Kauffman Stadium [Why Your Stadium Sucks]
Deadspin —
... Royal bastards: Kauffman Stadium is a wonderful baseball venue located southeast of downtown Kansas City, which is of course a fairly well-known suburb of Overland Park, Kan. The Royals don't deserve the place. They are a retrograde and proudly stupid franchise — one that trashes its owns fans and American culture in general for being too impatient to appreciate the stealthy genius of, say, acquiring Yuniesky Betancourt — and yet they are headquartered in a forward-looking baseball stadium that represents the last time the team did anything worth ...
At Least You’re Not A Royals Fan
TheScore.com Blog —
... seen leaving town still living in Boston) that, despite having nothing to show for all their supposed smarts, had nothing to show for it. Well, meet the Kansas City Royals, who’ve taken alienating fans to a new level by not only failing to reach .500 in every season but two since George Brett retired in 1993, but also by annoyingly lecturing fans on the perils of instant gratification, and their general lack of baseball acumen. And boy, did Royals Review ever do a nails job of taking them to task for it. “Dayton ...
Friday Grab Bag
Drunk Jays Fans —
... Royals Review—as was mentioned in the KLaw Chat, actually—absolutely destroys the clowns who are running the team there in Kansas City, and who keep lecturing the fans on patience and how little they understand baseball. (Note to Moore: most of them know enough about it to know that Mike Jacobs, Yuniesky Betancourt, Willie Bloomquist and Jose Guillen fucking suck. Y’know, FYI.) ...
Fourth anniversary, fourth plan
Sox Machine —
... that I meant to post a while ago. Worth reading. *Speaking of downtrodden franchises, Royals Review took Dayton Moore and Trey Hillman to task for stupid quotes. I also meant to post this a while ago. It’s also worth reading.
David DeJesus and Dayton’s Destiny
FanGraphs Baseball —
... be) when they have a chance at contending. Whether or not Moore knows what DeJesus and his contract are worth in the young talent the Royals should be pursuing is one (big) question; whether he is able to identify such players is another. It’s potentially a step in the right direction. If Moore can find another team willing to give up appropriate talent, this could be a good move for both teams.
Maybe then smart Royals fans would be a bit more willing to put aside their lust for instant gratification and Trust the Process™.
And maybe, just maybe, ...
Inaugrual Royal Reflection
Royally Speaking —
... Moore is the man to be able to invoke them. For the most part, he seems to be a stubborn person stuck in his own ways, unwilling to bend in his ideas of what makes up a successful team—even when the idea has proven itself to be ...
