He’s been injured this year and while very effective could be more valuable as a trading piece next year.

I could see guys like Mahay and Cruz pass through waivers and might be trade worthy if they string together a few good outings

The Phillies, Cardinals, Red Sox and Tigers are Jon Heyman of SI.com’s deadline winners. His losers? The Nats and Royals.

The absolute stubborn idea that the Royals can win both now and in some period of time in the future is, IMHO, the fatal flaw in Moore’s thought process that has led to many of his poor trades/personnel decisions.

What we don’t know, since we are outsiders, is this his true belief, or is he being pressured by the tyrannical and ignorant ownership family?

In an ideal world (read: level playing field), I would be totally on board with his goal of trying to build an organization that can win every year – but I just don’t think it makes sense coming from where this organization was when he took over. What I mean is, he inherited a minor league system in SUCH disarray, that it was pure folley to think he could even begin to think about winning until at least 5 or 6 years passed, in which the organization should have been doing NOTHING EXCEPT trading major league talent for prospects in order to build up the system. In short, he should have told Glass “I’ll take the job, but you need to announce to the public that due to my neglecting of the farm system, expect us to lose 100 to 110 games every year for the forseable future, but it will be OK in the end, because once we rebuild the system, THEN we can begin our dynasty”

Sorry I keep repeating this theme. I live in a dream world. It’s much nicer here than the cold, harsh reality of the Royal fandom world I used to reside in.

I still think Moore has been a lousy GM, looking at most of his decisions independently from the mindset of what I posted above.

In other words, even if they had taken the approach I advocate above, it still would have failed due to his incompetence.

Condolences on St Willie not being traded.

You can always root for a season ending injury. I know that sounds like something very un-christian to do, but come on – I know some of you out there were secretly happy when Guillen got hurt, because I know I was. Not happy for him to endure pain and rehab work, etc. – just happy I don’t have to watch him flounder anymore this year.

Willie really has been OK this season – but I get the disconnect from the perceived (perceived by the Royals and their media lackeys) value, and his real value. I also get that he will never be part of a contending team here, and as such it makes ZERO sense for him to be playing nearly every day.

I don’t get that? How can he think that we are going to compete this year or next? He would have been wiser to load up on high A level prospects and hope to make a run by 2011. Now we have to suffer for more of the same for at least another season before we can have any reasonable sense of hope at all.

if there were even any decent deals on the table. Soria is maybe our only game changer besides untouchable Zack. I would guess that people tried to lowball us on Bannister or Teahen, as the Royals have a history of giving players away in a season like this.
Coming into the season, Meche & Soria probably were the greatest bait, but Meche was injured, and Soria has also been. It would take a monster deal to give Joakim up and I don’t think it was offered.
On some of the bigger players, standing pat may have been the best thing to do even in the long term.
HOWEVER-We have somewhat of an excess of mediocre at best catching, and Olivo is probably at his peak trade value. It will only get worse from here, and if we are going to take a look at Pena anyway, we might as well have gotten something for Olivo, made do the rest of the year, and addressed catching in the offseason.
Cruz probably ruined any interest in him after the break, but I would have taken nearly anything for Mahay, called up Davies to start and moved Chen to the bullpen.
I doubt there was any interest, but I would have taken a 12 pack for Jacobs at this point.

I’m pretty sure Bannister’s “Christianity” has jack squat to do with whether he’s a good pitcher.