But it would likely just be rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic. Besides, Trey would probably have Kila pinch running while Bloomie DHs or some stuff like that.

by Saturday, right?

You have to think Tug will be sent back to Omaha tomorrow when Coco arrives.

Luis going back down when Luke comes up.

Of course, that means TPJ stays and plays a lot, but at this point. What else is there?

and is filled with bad players who, other than maybe jacobs, aren’t over-rated outside of Dayton’s office

with Hochevar seemingly stalled, the question becomes, can this team compete next year either?

I think trading Meche could make sense, but I can’t see that happening

Hernandez looks like he could be another Carl Crawford, or he could be another Joey Gathright

I gues I hold to the trivial truism that any trade is the right trade for the right offer.Even guys I really like like DDJ. I think it should be clear now, even to Dayton Moore, that his team isn’t contending this season (if only he’d have bothered to read Royals Review this offseason. Kind of hard to do when your office doesn’t have a computer, though).

Objectively speaking, outside of Grienke, Meche has to be a good chip. Despite the frustrations of fans, he’s actually pitched quite well this season. His contract is still favorable, although it proably doesn’t look as good as it did a year ago. Frankly, they should definitely be at least taking calls on him — he’s not an age where he can expected to continue, as every injury-like appearance hurts his value even more.

That’s too bad, because I like Meche and he’s been a horse for the team, but hey need to take what they can get. Assuming he’s healthy, he’s one of the top 15 SPs in the AL, at the moment.

sadly, the only person dumb enough to trade for Mike Jacobs is… wait for hit… Dayton Moore.. I didn’t read anything from anyone in the “industry” who thought it was smart at the time. He got Leo Nunez in the offseason. Right now, everyone sees that Billy Butler is playing 1B over him, and Al pitchers have figured him out… he’s the same .315 OBP, .500 SLG (in a good year) he always was.

Guillen might get something, but, again, only Dayton Moore is stupid enough to think he could possibly be worth the contract. As I’ve been saying for a whlie now, the Royals shouyld take the first offer they get for him invovlling a bad of balls and more than half of JoGui’s contract.

I really don’t know what to do. This is just wrong on so many levels. I know that the game has it’s ebbs and flows, but we just aren’t competitive and by all rights this team should not be playing this poorly. This has been going on for far too many games to just poo-poo it as a bad stretch.

Part of me says that the players seem to have quit on Hillman, but I think firing him could throw things into disarray. Only those on the inside really know what the team’s perception of him is, so I can’t really speculate on whether that would help or not.

Part of me says that we need to make some trades in order to re-stock the upper minor leagues and reconfigure this roster, and a (very small) part of me says that the team is lacking confidence, and perhaps a trade FOR a player would show faith by the front office and maybe kick-start things (like trading for jack wilson, for example).

I get that the team has some holes, but they also do have a lot of positives, but it’s like every possible hole that the royals have is just getting brutally exploited.

At least in the past, I knew we were god awful. This team got my hopes up. For that they should be ashamed of themselves. How dare they give me false hope.

Depressing…

possibly worse.

Its not like many of us thought this offense would be scoring many runs or this defense would be making many plays. It was pretty clear before the season we were who we thought we were.

I think I’d be willing to give Frank White a shot. He did manage his team in Wichita to the title series. And while he does say some dumb stuff on tv, he does say some things that make me think he’d be better than Hillman. Plus, he brings automatic respect to the clubhouse as Gordon, Butler, Kila, Mitch Maier, and Greinke were all on that team in Wichita.

His minor league numbers are positively Ruthian compared to Pena, Hernandez or Bloomquist. And its not like he has any MLB numbers we can really go on.

Win now!

is 24 and has hit pretty well for about three years, but has been going slow up the ladder. He was drafted in 2004 and played three short-seasons, and then low A in 2007 and high A in 2008. This is his first season in AA, and, if he really is this good (.351/.455/.487/.942 this year, .289/.399/.419/.818 last year), he’ll probably stay there the season, as he would be an actual prospect and would fit into the “full year at each level” philosophy.

It seemed far enough away to allow for unbridled hope. I’ll try to figure out how to change it to CentralChamps2012 later.