Did Dayton Moore really come from Atlanta?

Looking at Jerry Crasnick’s preview piece about speed pitching [hat tip: Tigerblog, a blog I am really enjoying lately], if you look at who had the fastest pitches for the Royals last year (look at the table along the right), there are three pitchers who tied at 100 mph—Jeremy Affeldt, Denny Bautista, Ambiorix Burgos.

All three have been traded. The former two to the Rockies for Ryan Shealy, the latter to the Mets for Brian Bannister.

So… are we sure Dayton Moore came from Atlanta, land of fireballing pitching prospects and scout-heavy analysis?

Also, tonight’s game is the first spring training game I’m actually watching. I was planning to write that Tony Pena Jr. was defying this post (read it, by the way) by walking in both of his two games as a Royal—a 100% turnaround from Angel Berroa’s hacktastic swing. But… then he grounded into a double play. And… now he just fumbled a double-play ball which would have saved a run and ended the inning.