Royals Fall to Angels Late

by Freneau on Sep 5, 2009 12:39 AM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

Dayton's hand-picked bullpen filled with his guys blew it again. Wow, Jamey Wright failed. Again. Since May 20th, his ERA is over 6.00. I'm stunned he quickly put two runners on to start the eighth. Damn that bad luck I guess. Poor poor Royals. Who could have foreseen that Roman Colon would have allowed those inherited runners to score? This is a man with a track record of success! Look at what he's done in the American League! You have to trust a guy with a 5.51 ERA since 2005 to get guys out and if he doesn't, well, that's on him.

Look, I'm perfectly willing to drop it just as soon as Moore stops moonlighting as his own PR man every five days in the papers and goes back to being one of the bottom ten GMs in baseball full time.

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Injuries since Thursday

Brian Bannister (shoulder tenderness)
Jose Guillen (hamstring)
Gil Meche (shoulder tenderness)
Kyle Farnsworth (back tweeked)
John Bale (act of God, hamstring)
Joakim Soria (shoulder tenderness)

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2009 12:53 AM EDT reply actions

i hope Meche is shut down for the rest of the season

i’ll give the Royals credit for it if this happens, I promise

by Freneau on Sep 5, 2009 12:58 AM EDT up reply actions

BTW

Bale and Farnsworth dropping might be enough to get some relievers up here tomorrow.

Or DM will have Trey work with a 3 man bench and 3 man bullpen tomorrow

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2009 12:59 AM EDT up reply actions

who will start?

by Freneau on Sep 5, 2009 12:59 AM EDT up reply actions

you mean we’re not carrying a Greinke, Hochevar, Davies, Chen, Tejeda rotation as we have a bullpen of Colon Blow, Wright, and Yabuta?

You mean we could call up DiNardo, Rosa, Marte, Hayes.. put a few guys on the 60 day DL, and see if that whole “KC’s bullpen is so much better than Omaha’s” thing is BS or not?

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2009 1:02 AM EDT up reply actions

it looks like its going to a fun september

by Freneau on Sep 5, 2009 1:08 AM EDT up reply actions

the players are accountable

by marbotty on Sep 5, 2009 12:58 AM EDT reply actions

my Roster move ideas for the next few days

to be done by Tuesday

Cruz, Lowery, and Waechter to the 60 day DL
Meche, Bannister, Bale, and Farnsworth to the DL
Call up John Bannister, Henry Barrera, Kaaihue, and Carlos Rosa (who are on the 40 man)
Call up Irving Falu, Victor Marte, Lenny DiNardo, and Chris Hayes

You could probably find cause to put one of the middle 4 DL guys on the 60 man to open another spot.

But the fact that we have like 3 position players in Omaha on the 40 man says a lot about how the system is right now. Oh yeah, Hulett is playing for Team USA and will probably get the fuck out of this organization ASAP.

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2009 1:14 AM EDT reply actions

what about Gordon?

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Sep 5, 2009 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions

sweet mother of fuck

HOW BAD DO JAMEY WRIGHT AND ROMAN COLON HAVE TO BE BEFORE THEY ARE RELEASED??

seriously, holy fucking shit, this is the worst bullpen i have ever seen in my life. with tejeda in the rotation, and soria hurt, this is one of the worst bullpens in the history of baseball. and I remember the late 90s royals. it’s unbelievable

by slayor on Sep 5, 2009 1:17 AM EDT reply actions

Jamey Wright is gone after this year, God willing. Colon Blow probably ends up in Omaha next year.

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2009 1:20 AM EDT up reply actions

Also, re: Jamey Wright

he’s dangerously close to being a Type B free agent, so if we offer him arbitration and some other team is really stupid, then we can get a draft pick in exchange for losing him

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2009 1:20 AM EDT up reply actions

don't worry

Dayton never goes to arb. I except Wright to be locked up a day or two before his hearing is scheduled.

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by Matt Klaassen on Sep 5, 2009 1:24 AM EDT up reply actions

The Arb hearing strategy session

DM: “Ok, our argument for our offer to Jamey Wright is that he is a valuable groundball pitcher who induces double plays”
“Um, our argument should be countering their argument about how much their client is worth”
DM: “I AM NOT GOING TO LIE, JAMEY WRIGHT IS AWESOME AND I WANT HIM FOR $3M IN 2010”

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2009 1:30 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

“Wait, you’re offering $3M? Jamey’s side is offering $2.5M”

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2009 1:30 AM EDT up reply actions

$3.5M?

$4M?

by AxDxMx on Sep 5, 2009 2:17 AM EDT up reply actions

BTW

conspiracy callers claiming that the recent Royals pitchers injuries are being faked is getting a bit tiresome

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2009 1:47 AM EDT reply actions

If it's fake...

Bale is the worst thespian ever. One pitch and he buckles? That’s peaking way too early, theatrically speaking.

by LaFLamme on Sep 5, 2009 2:02 AM EDT reply actions

Adam Wainwright gives up 7 and wins

Wins! The most important stat in baseball!

by NotAHippie on Sep 5, 2009 2:13 AM EDT reply actions

Chris George agrees

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by BHWick on Sep 5, 2009 3:00 AM EDT up reply actions

I wouldn't mind a few wins

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by buddyball on Sep 5, 2009 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Sweet picture

At least Tejeda had a nice showing.

by BrRoyal on Sep 5, 2009 8:15 AM EDT reply actions

Tejeda in his two starts for the Royals

1-0, 0.87 (10.1 innings, 1 run, 8 Ks)

by andrewmiller on Sep 5, 2009 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions

He did

I would be nice of Tejeda could start, but I just don’t think he’ll cut it. But he’s been very good as a reliever, and could potentially be another Ram-Ram 2008.

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by Matt Klaassen on Sep 5, 2009 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions

walks

Does anyone know how many walks our bullpen
has surrendered since the All Star Break?

by kgustaf on Sep 5, 2009 9:48 AM EDT reply actions

Wait, you're telling me

that the guys pitching on the Royals are guys that Dayton signed? See, because I thought these were just randoms that came in out of the stands to pitch. Thanks for clearing that up. Man, in that case, DM is a HORRRRRRRRRRRRRIBLE GM.

Tell me, has he made any other poor moves such as this? Is this whole team his responsibility, or is it just the bad ones?

I agree that DM needs to keep quiet, I am guessing that instead of trying to make moves, he and his cronies/henchmen/whatever other high-gain adjective you want to throw out there to elicit an emotional instead of logical reaction are just trolling the local news media trying to get their story out.

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by Home Run Tony Cogan on Sep 5, 2009 10:47 AM EDT reply actions

There were good moves?

Seriously?

What kind of idiot wouldn’t extend Greinke given the opportunity? And Soria came to him. What else is there this season?

by AxDxMx on Sep 5, 2009 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions

yeah,

we should start calling him Dayton Mooreon. Let’s fire him right now and hire somebody else, then when he doesn’t win us a WS in two years, fire him and start over yet again. I mean, anybody is better than Mooreon, he’s got to be the worst GM in history, right?

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by Home Run Tony Cogan on Sep 5, 2009 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Let's take Will's "one of the bottom 10" GMs.

Can you name 9 current GMs in baseball who are clearly worse? How about 5?

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by Matt Klaassen on Sep 5, 2009 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions

1. Omar Minaya
2. Omar Minaya
3. Somebody else without a process
4. Another guy who has never worked for Atlanta
5. Omar Minaya

Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures

by averagegatsby on Sep 5, 2009 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't know

because in my opinion he hasn’t been given enough time. That’s my point. You are certainly entitled to your opinion, as are others. I haven’t made my mind up yet. I think I’ve been fairly consistent on where I stand.

I certainly think JP Prickkiardi is bad just off the top of my head, he’s been given more than enough time and hasn’t done squat, and has handed out some of the worst contracts ever. Omar Minaya is another.

And, do not misread what I’m about to say, but even Theo Epstein has several stinkers on his resume (Julio Lugo, Dice-K, Smoltz).

It just gets really old that the apparent purpose of every post and every story by certain people is to take a shot at Dayton Moore. To be honest, it starts to get a little creepy.

This blog is called Royals Review, but it has turned into Fire Dayton Moore. I guess if the point is to run this blog into the ground like Dayton has supposedly done with the Royals, then we’re well on our way.

How about something productive and constructive for a change? See Rany’s recent article as a perfect example.

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by Home Run Tony Cogan on Sep 5, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions

ricciardi has consistently put together one of the top 10 teams in baseball

Fire Everyone

by billybeingbilly on Sep 5, 2009 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions

top 10 according to whom?

a consistently top 10 team would have some playoff appearances. guess what? after 7 years he has the same number of playoff appearances as allard baird had, not to mention the fact that he consistently ruins pitchers and signs terrible contracts like wells and rios.

besides, that’s not the point, the point is that it’s too early in my opinion to tell with Moore. and besides that, I’m tired of the personal agendas and constant focus on it even when we’re talking about something entirely unrelated.

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by Home Run Tony Cogan on Sep 5, 2009 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Ricciardi also has the curse of being in the Yankees and Red Sox and Rays division

So I can understand no playoffs in that atmosphere.

by AxDxMx on Sep 5, 2009 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions

I can sort of understand the "too early" part.

But, I do wonder what has he done that gives you any hope? And if you say, “look at the minor leagues”- please tell me what to look at and where.

He can get 4, NOT 5.

by Warden11 on Sep 5, 2009 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions

At least the Blue Jays have been competitive while he was there.

by AxDxMx on Sep 5, 2009 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions

He is pretty bad.

If you think we can’t get someone better, I guess I’d rather keep Dayton, but quite honestly I don’t really want to go down the road any further in the wrong direction with him reading the map incorrectly.

by AxDxMx on Sep 5, 2009 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions