Q & A with GMDM

Completely uninspiring with some of the guff he comes out with, but whatever. Jason Kendall loves his kids! Bless!

that was a good read.

Sure there was manager speak in there, he’s a manager, but I do like in the last year or so DM has actually started to place a time frame on “the Process”. I know that’s irrational, and it doesn’t mean it will work, but once I have a name, or amount, it just makes me feel better.

I really like the individualized goals for each player, that can be changed, and adjusted as they go up or down in the organization. Very smart.

Interesting take on Yuni. Maybe coaches, and agents need to treat different players, differently. I liked that.

I tend to be an optimist, so I naturally enjoy hearing most of this. But this made me laugh: “He also thinks we are just a 6 game winning streak out of contending with the injuries that some of the other teams have had.”

Unless you had a typo and he said “16 game winning streak,” I would say that was highly delusional.

Thanks for typing this up, though! Interesting read.

…you need to write to your audience. Try writing in basic next time. Ex: 1110 000 1010110 0011 0110 1010001 10001001.

but this quote smacks of GMDM noting that Kila is performing well, then trying to take credit for it after the fact.

more than 75% of the organization wanted to release Kila. He wanted to keep Kila so they moved him down a level, and let him get back on track.

Now, we are in the age of statistics where every HS kid knows his batting average OBP and OPS.

Master of saying a lot of words and not saying one god damn thing.

Great post.

My only snark is this: what possible objectives in Kila’s development plan has he not achieved? Hit .400? Hit a five run home run? Turn an unassisted triple play?

Very interesting…thanks for taking the time to type it all up and share!

I found it to be pretty interesting, although that 6-game winning streak thing did make my eyes pop out. Hey – I’d love to be wrong and for that to be true. I was under the assumption it would take a 3 way plane crash involving the Twins, Tigers and White Sox, but if a few key injuries and and 6 game win streak is all, that would be much better.

I tend to be an optimist, too, so I’m happy to hear about what the plans are and have hope they will work out. I often feel like they are just flailing around at the ML level, which sucks, but if it’s so they can focus on rebuilding the organization and they actually are good at rebuilding the organization, then I guess I’ll just manage somehow.

I’m gonna be really f***ing bitter (well, more bitter) if we’re still in this spot in a two years, though.

As a wavering GMDM supporter, it’s nice to read something positive.

And thanks for the follow up on the catchers. He obviously was ignoring the number of SBs against

DM is essentially saying that because Betancourt grew up in a dictatorship, they decided to just tell him what to do to provide structure.

So the worst case scenario there is that he snaps due to the pressure and rides a motorboat away from KC.

Gil Meche threw a pre-BP bullpen and looked okay.

Luke Hochevar was throwing with ZG and looked fine. The trainer watched like a hawk the entire time.

2nd rounder Brett Eibner was in the dugout before the Royals took BP. He seemed relieved, excited, and nervous. Seemed like kid who was either waiting for the fractured wrist to heal to take the physical and sign the deal, or they had an agreement already in place. Either way, he’ll be signed. Maybe they are also waiting on the commish?

Moore has learned more of the right things to say, and it even looks like he’s starting to act on some of it. I still think his learning curve has been very steep, and it will be interesting to see if he can hold onto his job long enough to complete the overhaul. At times he has seemed like a guy who’s dropping a new engine into a car that’s up on blocks and can’t wait to test drive it.

Chen and Lerew have done a very good job of stepping in and filling for injuries. This shows that we are starting to get some depth at our MiLB levels. Last year that did not happen. Once we had injuries, we were no longer competitive.

Honestly, this is complete bunk. Chen was around last year, after all, and Lerew has made three starts. I think it’s a little early to start praising him for stabilizing the rotation. We had random retreads with no future around before, ala Sir Sidney, and I just don’t buy that these AAA pitchers are actually minor league depth.

Must say my favorite thing is his insistence that players need to go one level at a time + talking about how how Gordon won’t be up soon ‘causr hebshouldn’t be rushed.

Yes, Alex Gordon is great example of taking it one level at a time and not rushing a player’s timetable.

I just wish we could have heard the story about how{everyone in the organization thought Aviles should have been buried by Dayton said "no, let’s give him a chance, we’re nit\oing to stick ourselves with waiver bait to run out there every day ni matter how bad they suck and block this guy.

and it was pretty much the same thing with Split and Ryan last night:

He said that Farnsworth, Texiera, and Marte have really improved with the new system and it is allowing guys to stay in their spots in the pen. That is why the pen is performing better now.

Most of the problems earlier in the year were because of the complete garbage that was in the pen: Rupe, Thompson, Mendoza, Bullington, Cruz, Colon.

The problems weren’t because those guys didn’t know their roles, it was that 1/2 of the pen was made up of guys who weren’t major league quality pitchers. Replace the terrible pitchers + have Tejeda reemerge, and suddenly the problem goes away.

He said, in a very polite way, that Toronto and Colorado are among the league leaders in bases allowed from their catchers. I looked this up as best I could. John Buck has 1 PB, Toronto has 3 PBs as a team, and has allowed 35 WPs for a grand total of 39 free bases from catchers

Does this factor stolen bases allowed?

He said that Blake Wood was the only player in our MiLB pitching system who challenged for a MLB sport on the roster this year.

And the attitude among the players and coaches right now is they know they are on the outside, but want to make something happen and make a run at getting back into it. They know that it just takes a few injuries on another team to get back into it.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOUR 2010 KANSAS CITY ROYALS: HOPE THE OTHER GUYS GET HURT!

“We had a losing mindset in past seasons. But this has changed. We really think we can win games now.”

“Last year, we would have lost this kind of game. But this year, we know we can win.”

“There’s a different attitude in the clubhouse this year. We feel like we can compete with anybody.”

It seems like every year they talk about how the mindset sucked last year and that everyone thought they’d lose every game. But in the current year all that has changed.

with a mutual option as a 4th year. I plan on playing DH when I want and then just maybe catching a couple of innings on Kendall’s off days, because I love my kids too.

she’s ok!

Yeah, the Royals wanted to bring him back, but Buck really

took his time and sorted through a number of offers from numerous teams

that were

more than the Royals were willing to spend on a catcher

Question, Has anyone just told Yuni to eat a freaking salad every once in a while?

but I really believe that we are going to be good in a couple years. It feels like I’ve been saying this for way too long but I do agree with him that it takes a long time to build up a system and an organization. If we quit on this regime now then we just start all over again and won’t ever know if this would’ve worked.

If all of the guys in Moustakas’s and Hosmer’s class aren’t making it in a couple years then we know he failed, but until they should realistically be up here, I think fans should realize we have to just grin and bare it.

This isn’t the NFL, this isn’t the NBA, Kevin Durant is not going to pop out of a draft and suddenly bring us to contention. Hopefully DM can start to make better MLB moves but it really does come down to the homegrown players in a market like ours.

as defined by taking a completely empty minor league and weak scouting etc into an actual supply line. I have patience for that.

I’ll give benefit of the doubt on Guillen as the only “power bat” that would sign here, and even kendall (gag) as a way to help the pitchers become more confident “throwing any pitch”.

But please, please, explain Puds, Davies (still starting), Bloomy EVER starting (sure great asset on the bench, he can PR and babysit any position without shifting 4 others around), EVER using Guillen in the OF let alone in american league games, Aviles NOT being in the lineup daily…..

he HAS to get better at finding productive players at the MLB level and putting together a team that fits…i expected the minor league system to be ranked higher than it is by this point…all that being said, i think it’s too early to make a call on him, but the clock is starting to tick…the talent from the minors needs to start coming up and producing real soon…one of the best things he said was that he wants a steady flow of talent, instead of one “wave”…one of my biggest concerns from the recent draft was the lack of upside players.

the 2010 Royals tracking the mid 90’s to mid 00’s Braves tracking the 1980’s Royals.

Thats about all you need to know about this team.

Thanks for writing up.

My question, though, probably would have had something to do with plus hands.