You Can't Blame Moore for Royals Troubles
9/3/2009
Article by: James Kemplay
The Kansas City Royals we're preseason picks by many to win the AL Central this year, instead they are headed once again towards 100 losses. As the Royals head down the final stretch the fingers of many media outlets, sports writers, and many many fans are pointing straight at Royals general manager Dayton Moore.
Moore who is in his 4th full season (technically his 3rd full season as he came aboard the Royals mid season in 2006) just received a new contract extension that will keep him the man in charge of this rocky ship until 2012 and is taking the blunt of the blame for the Royals woeful ways. People point to several of his moves (Jose Guillen, Tony Pena Jr., and Mike Jacobs to name a few) about why the Royals continue to lose games. They complain about the Manager not using his pitching staff correctly and Moore’s lack of brining in any big name players that can help the Royals now. But what all the media (well most, I know there are quite a few media people who support Moore) and many fans fail to see was how truly bad the Royals used to be, from top to bottom.
During the Alaird Baird days the Royals drafted cheap low risk, lowest reward players and littered the Minor league system with them. Baird spent little or nothing on international players and development of the ones he did have on board. The Royals traded away players that held value to get others with little to none; they were treated as a Minor League club for other franchises trying to make a pennant race. Under Moore the philosophy has completely changed.
Under Moores watch the Royals have developed over sea’s academies to help develop and farm foreign and Latin American talent. The Royals have invested millions of dollars into player development, drafting, and signing of home grown talent (example resigning of proven good players like David DeJesus and Star pitcher Zack Greinke long term).
One of the main reasons the Royals are struggling now is lack of depth in the minor leagues. When the Royals need a player to fill a hole on their major league squad they have to reach for talent in the free agent market. They have to over pay for the only players that are willing to come play only for the paycheck, the Jose Guillen’s and the Coco Crisps of the world, and when they are injured there is no depth behind them to replace them with.
Under Moore the Royals now have one of the best low A ball minor leaguers in baseball. Willing to draft great players and pay them what it takes to get them in the system and not draft sign-ability picks has filled low A ball and A ball with budding star talent. If the system and foundation Moore is laying works out, then when a player like pitcher Gil Meche goes down with an injury the Royals have a budding super star in the minors waiting to come up (say an Aaron Crow) to replace him. Once Meche is healthy and playing good again the Royals can trade Meche and his 55 million dollar contract to a team for 2 or 3 good minor leaguers to replenish the system.
People, this is how small markets work, and when it all comes together you get the Oakland A’s, the Minnesota Twins, the Tampa Bay Rays. Moore is trying to build that here in Kansas City and with what was left over before Moore arrived it is going to take time. When the system from Triple A down to A ball are filled with talent then we won’t have to trade for the Mike Jacobs to hit home runs, we will have our own grown Mike Moustakas, or when we need a good starter we won’t need to sign a 55 million dollar pitcher to be able to pitch effective for 6 to 7 innings (when the Royals signed Meche to that contract I truly believe they did it as he was a good innings eater not that he could have been anything like he has been) when we have say an Aaron Crow is already ready.
So let’s try not to point the fingers at Moore for the woeful Royals, give him some time to build our system up. Just think if the talks, reports, and rumors about the players he’s currently recently drafted come up and contribute, wouldn’t it be better to have Eric Hosmer and Moustakas (much much higher thought of prospects) hitting the ball around then Coco Crisp and Mike Jacobs? I’ll let you ponder that for a while and you can get back with me in 2012 when the fruits of all this labor should be in full bloom.
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