Dayton Moore and Trey Hillman Need to Stop Lecturing, Start Bringing In Better Players

Trey Hillman and Dayton Moore have lectured us all season. Their mistakes, we’ve been repeatedly told, are actually our mistakes. Their failings, we’ve been repeatedly told, are really just our failings. See, the fans and the media have both a moral and an intellectual shortcoming: we’re too impatient and we’re too dumb. Since this summer, the Royals have consistently pushed a bizarre social criticism on the public, claiming that Americans are too into instant gratification, which has poisoned our abilities to fully appreciate all the great progress they’ve made with the Royals.

...Dayton Moore and Trey Hillman are both, essentially, rookies. They are rookies at their current level of employment. This is not to say that they may not be great General Managers and Managers someday, but it is to acknowledge that, at present, they have not, as they say, done anything at their current level. They need to hold the Alex Gordon mirror up to themselves. The unfounded arrogance of team management in the past year has been absolutely stunning, and I’m not the only one to notice it. On and off the record, just about anyone close to the team has remarked about the siege mentality that’s taken over, and that mentality is driven by an unwillingness to take criticism or even acknowledge slight mistakes.

...And before we go, here’s another thing. Draft better. Draft better and make better trades. Actually adhering to your supposed process would be nice. The next time you want to trade away arms for old, expensive, bad players, don’t do it. Getting a fat budget and drafting completely predictable players in the early rounds is not exactly brilliance. Its a good strategy, but stop parading your process so much when, and this might hurt, a dude with a Baseball America subscription could have done the same thing. Bring us some late-round guys that emerge. Prove to us how smart you are. The Royal system, which has been overhauled since 2006, is still weak. There have been hits and there have been misses, but three drafts in, there’s still a lot of uncertainty.

Yeah...and is Chino Cadahia ready yet?