While the season so far has taken a troubling turn, the Royals' record has improved each season since Dayton Moore took over the helm, and, without looking, I believe they are still ahead of 2008's pace. He's surely made over the team from head-to-toe on every level. At least that's what we've been told: it's been all those new players, the "winners," who have made a difference. But is this really the case? I thought it might be nice to just look at the Royals 2009 RAR (Runs Above Replacement) as listed today at FanGraphs and simply put up a series of graphs seeing what proportion of the Royal's marginal runs/wins are from players that Dayton Moore acquired, and what proportion are from pre-Dayton Moore holdovers. Sure, it's probably not much in the latter category, since I'm sure the KC media would have pointed that out already, but let's take a look anyway. I'm actually not going to offer much commentary -- Dayton Moore's masterful team building skills speak for themselves. I'll leave the detailed analysis for the 6 people who look at and read this. Here's the first one:

[This picture is a classic by Dan Szymborski -- I hope he doesn't mind me using it.]