A Performance for the Ages by All-Star Mark Redman

by royalsreview on Sep 28, 2006 12:00 PM EDT in News Comment 10 comments

Despite the warnings of Tina Turner, the Kansas City Royals needed another hero. With Mark Teahen, Mark Grudzielanek and Ryan Shealy out of the lineup the All-Star knew that tonight all eyes would be on him as a captivated nation tuned in to see if the Royals could avoid 100 losses for one more night.

Wear it with pride!!

Redman went 8 strong, striking out an incredible 4 Twins over the course of the evening, including a strikeout of Nick Punto in the 8th inning that I will remember for the rest of my life. The drama was incredible. It was one of those cames where you start calling people somewhere around the 5th inning, "dude, you watching this? this is history."

Thanks to the four strikeouts, Redman keeps the heat on Jimmy Gobble in the race for the team lead.

Royals Strikeout Leaders:

1. Jimmy Gobble: 77 (81.2 IP)
2. Mark Redman: 76 (167 IP)
3. Ambiorix Burgos: 70 (70.2 IP)

Thanks to Redman's heroism, a rare offensive outburst stood out. The Royals pounded out extra-base hits all night -- two doubles, two homers -- and mixed in their standard share of singles (8) and even two walks (German and Emil).

Statement Game

The Royals let the Twins know that they will not lie down and be trampled on and that 2007 WILL BE VERY DIFFERENT!

In Buddy's honor, the Royals served notice that the human spirit can overcome anything. This is the character of a true warrior that Dayton Moore knows is at the heart of baseball. Skill doesn't matter, talent doesn't matter, coaching doesn't matter. Drafting and player development don't matter either. Nay. What matters is character.

And tonight, the Royals proved that and we shall all remember this game for the duration of our lives.

What made the epic win even more poignant was the wonderful news delivered this morning by Bob Dutton in the Star:

?Angel Berroa is a gifted baseball player,? Moore said. ?From what I?ve observed, he has an above-average arm, above-average accuracy, above-average power. He has good hands and good fielding skills.

?There are tools there, and I?ve learned that you stay with tools. You have to be patient with players, but players have to produce. They understand that.?

Indeed. I hope we stick with Berroa for another decade, he is excactly what this franchise needs. They always say, you have to be strong up the middle. Stay with those tools, Dayton! Hold them dear to you and hold them dear to Angel! The wonderful tools will keep us warm all winter. The future is now! Remember all those years Jeter posted a .500-something OPS? Did the Yankees drop him? No, no they didn't. And neither shall we.

And remember, Dayton envisions the plaza as the Royals World Championship Parade site.

With Angel in the first car.

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Again...give him time...

Please...I've rarely heard a GM publicly totally trash a player on his team...it would be suicide to publicly trash a player when you might want to trade him for something (anything) in the offseason...

What moves have you not liked from Moore? Gathright for Howell could be questionable, but not on a Neifi for Dye scale...

Again, the man has been on the job for four months and you have already thrown him under the bus..

Let the man do his job.

Moore never said talent doesn't matter. Moore never said skills don't matter.

In fact, nobody has said that. You have said that.

JoPo did say that character does matter and I tend to agree with that. It's not the most important component, but it does matter.

I can almost guarantee that Berroa will not be a part of this team when the Royals are good again.

Do you honestly believe Moore should say...

"Angel Berroa is one of the worst players in Major League Baseball. His strike-zone judgment is non-existent and he it appears at times that he has no idea how to play the game. We would also like to trade him in the offseason."

I'm still trying to figure out what you have against Moore and he's done to justify your persistent pessimism...

by joezdeb on Sep 28, 2006 2:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I love Moore

but he is dead wrong on Berroa, my friend.

That would be quite refreshing to hear a GM say something like what you indicate above! Perhaps some public humiliation might help Berroa find his "tools" - or at least make him aware just exactly how poorly he has been playing.

No GM in baseball would be foolish enough to trade for Berroa at this point - not even if the Royals agreed to pay most of his salary, so I say yeah, go ahead and trash him publicly. IT COULD ONLY HELP!

Alternative treatment:

Bring in Anne Sullivan to work with him, because he needs a MIRACLE WORKER to revive his "career".

You picked on the wrong topic to debate with the posters on this site, joezdeb - Berroa bashing is our favorite pastime, and with good reason.

by loyal2s dad on Sep 28, 2006 3:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

wow

was that a Miracle Worker reset I just saw

awful, yet genius

by LeoBloom on Sep 28, 2006 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

To be fair

joezdeb is defending Moore not Berroa.

by mazoboom on Sep 28, 2006 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Glass is the answer here.

The owner, millionaire pauper David Glass, should use the $60M+ that he gets from MLB enterprises to improve the team, and more importantly, RECTIFY THE MISTAKES of Allan Baird. That means, eat the contracts of Angel Berroa, Mike Sweeney and Reggie Sanders, and desperately try to get rid of them.

by All Shook Down on Sep 28, 2006 4:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think Berroa sucks....

and think he's a waste of space..

I'm talking about the assertion that all Moore looks at is tools and character and not skill and talent.

It would do no good for Moore to come out and blast Berroa. I've never seen a good or bad GM do it.

I'm not debating Berroa's skills, he has very little. I'm debating throwing Moore under the bus after only four months into the job.

by joezdeb on Sep 28, 2006 5:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I wouldn't say

I'm throwing him under the bus exactly. I just don't understand why statements supporting berroa need to be made. I'm not calling for Moore to rip Berroa, which obviously would be pointless and borderline inappropriate anyway, but why go so far the other way and praise him so much.

Maybe he's lying, but maybe he actually believes it (and given all his moral/character statments, who knows...)

At some point this offseason we'll have to start evaluating Moore so far. All I can say is that he's gone out of his way to praise Buddisimo and Berroa, while keeping someone like Huber locked away in AAA.

How does this make any sense?

by royalsreview on Sep 28, 2006 6:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

exactly

Why say anything? It is the same thing with Buddy's inane comments earlier... and he actually DID throw a player under the bus - just the wrong player. I don't buy that Moore or Bell are saying this kind of crap in hopes of building Berroa's trade value.. does anyone honestly think there is a scout or GM or ANYONE in any front office in baseball that would read an article like that and have it effect his judgement??? No way. I will never believe that. All Moore has accomplished with this is pissing off the people who are still reading articles about the Royals at this point: THE TRUE ROYALS FANS. Why would you do that??? What can you possibly gain?

by antidecaf on Sep 28, 2006 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Huber question

Is there something we might not know, such as was he an attitude problem at Omaha?

by jbrocato on Sep 28, 2006 8:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

There has to be something we don't know

about Huber. A 24 year old with a potential major league bat can't find work on the worst team in baseball? It has to be something beyond the problem with finding a spot defensively for him - because we already put up with more than a few sub-par defenders on the current roster (Berroa, Costa, German, Brown, Phillips).

by loyal2s dad on Sep 29, 2006 9:28 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs