50 Cent threw out the first pitch at the Mets game tonight. Sign him up to replace Ventura?

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As I watch the Royals flounder against an Astro team that is only playing 2 legitimate MLB starters, at home, I'm reminded that the Brewers once fired Yost because he wasn't the guy to lead a young team to the promised land.

At some point you have to make a change, and the manager is always the first to fall on the sword. You can't fire all the players, and GMDM will make a decision at some point to try to save his own job.

Yep....Rosenthal article today basically saying a change needs to be made

moose update?

Hitting .176 in AAA.

Dallas McPherson

Pretend for a second Moore finally does fire Yost...who should replace him? Who is available? And does anyone trust GMDM to make the right hire?

They'd probably just insert Wakamatsu

brad pitt? think we could bring him home?

Chuck sums up how I feel about the 2014 Royals perfectly...

http://www.boredwrestlingfan.com/wp-...d-shake-o1.gif

I'd rather play out the rest of the year and fire them both. Dayton doesn't deserve to hire a 3rd manager. No way in hell.

@JoshVernier: #Royals Yost acknowledged they're not having "big league" ABs, swinging at too many 1st pitches & pitcher's pitches & not making adjustments

@JoshVernier: #Royals Yost was as animated/angry/honest as he's been all season about this offense.

Welp, sorry fellas.

Damn. Wish I would have watched Ned's presser. I bet he is feeling the heat. ****er.

Twitter is calling for Hosmer's demotion now.

@JoshVernier: #Royals Yost admitted he's "covered" (made excuses) for the offense in the past, when they've been owned by a mediocre pitcher.

We are past pointing fingers at individual players. It's time to point fingers at the guy that assembled these pussys.

Rany is....I say do it. Send a message

Send them all down, the entitled candy asses.

At this point, is it honestly a reach to say that the Omaha lineup could be any worse than the KC lineup?

**** you, David Glass.

No kidding? As if any competent fan/reporter couldn't see that going on? Again, I've said it once, I'll say it again. These yak-offs have played this ho hum approach for far too long the past 2-3 years. Give a crap during the first half of the season and you wouldn't have to string together false hope win streaks towards the end of the season.

DM always said he had a 16-year plan, so I have no idea why people are trying to rush "the process."

I'm pretty okay with trading anybody away at this point. This team is not going to go anywhere spectacular this season barring a miracle. I've seen a pretty good sample size of this team, this GROUP of guys to know that only a few of them have been playing at a major league level. Have not learned to take pitches, certain pitches, and its constant, such a breakdown in development. I feel like we should be listening on anybody. If we can ship Yost to the Wingnuts for a baseball then do that too.

Glass has ponied up and done his part. He doesn't control the roster, he just signs the checks. Now the ball is in his court to kick GMDM and the loyalty brigade to the curb.

I'm not getting bent out of shape over this franchise anymore. That feeling has passed like a bad kidney stone.

I guess I'll point this out. Really? Are you this dumb?

To be fair, he has owned the team technically for 14 years... however, after Mr. Kauffman passed he was the leader of the Board that ran the club as interim owners until he sold to himself....

Yes, cause Moustakas is in the Omaha lineup.

Well, come on. He's somewhat right. He's been the Chairman and CEO since 1993. He became sole owner in 2000, but this team has been under his leadership since then (over 20 years). So, let's not act like what he said is just monumentally reeruned.

This is what happens when a Team ignores the tend in baseball towards valuing ops and obp. Gmdm either refuses or isn't smart enough to make the change to modern baseball analytics thereby overvaluing his sense of a players "skills" through the eye test, stats of yesteryear, or grit.

This has been pointed out by Rany for years now. I'd rather have the dermatologist extraordinaire running this team through science and numbers than GMDM and his crew of outdated clowns.

Adding to that, I think if these guys had come up through a system that stressed strike zone management, they'd be much better hitters.

Nelson Cruz vs the Royals......Who hits more HR's this season?

Current Tally:
Nelson Cruz: 17

KC Bitch Tits: 20

Should be a battle to the end.

I believe it's been a week and a half since our last homer, correct?

That's pretty pathetic.

8 games.

Hey now, don't be dissing my Stros. We sometimes have 3 legitimate MLB STARTERS! LMAO

Story from JoPoz about how Royals are the hardest team in all major sports to love:

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/20...-team-to-love/

He's getting hammered on it in the comments. His article spewed bias.

Bias over who's the worst Pro Sports franchise?

LOL
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I AGREE IT'S BIASED. WHERE"S THE CHEAPS ON THAT LIST

The Royals ARE the most pathetic franchise in all major sports. And to prove it, they plan to go out and get swept by the worst team in baseball today.

"Plan"? "Plan"?

Ned Yost don't got no "plan". He said so himself last week.

You leave my Wingnuts alone. They are my only outlet for enjoyable baseball to watch being that they can actually hit the ball and win games.

8th times a charm

By the WORST team the past 3 seasons...

Team has no heart.

The lack of home runs isn't what really concerns me, its the lack of hits with RISP. I don't know how many times we have had baserunners and couldn't get them in. This team is a pretty good doubles hitting team and has great speed. Infante being out has hurt, the second base hole is just a black hole without him. Combine that with third base black hole and that's really bad offense.

It should concern you, because the total is unacceptably low. Nobody's saying they should be a power team, but they are less than half the league average (20 vs. 47). That's just way too few. That makes runs too hard to come by for a team already struggling to amass baserunners (see below), and it also means opposing pitchers don't have to worry about making mistakes in the strike zone, because those balls are going to stay in the park.

(BTW, this SHOULD be a good doubles hitting team, but so far this year they are just league average in that department.)

As for RISP, it's bad but really no different then their hitting without RISP:

Overall batting: .252/.306/.348
RISP: .241/.308/.346

Indeed, the problem is they don't have enough baserunners, period. They are 14th in the AL in OBP, again far below the league average. So even if they were hitting better with RISP, there would be few opportunities to do so.

An AL general manager (and staff) actually tried to create an offense without anyone who walks + anyone with power. He must be insane to think that would work.

Contact and speed! /1976

The reason power doesn't concern me is because there was only 3 players I expected to have any power on this team and one of them is in Omaha right now. Hosmer and Butler sucking is what concerns me. The rest of them are pretty much expected.

We were 4th in the AL in OPS that year.

Yes, because it was a different environment. That was the point. Baseball of the 2000s is different than the game of the 1970s. Pitching is different, ballparks are different, philosophies are different.

Right, right. Just pointing out that even the quintessential team of the 1970s -- the Royals -- they weren't winning with speed, defense, and pitching alone.

:thumb:

Although Fringe, that 76 Royals team hit only 65 HRs ... about what this team is on pace to hit. :grr:

But that 76 team also led the league in doubles and triples.

This year's Royals would be better if they led the league in doubles and triples, instead of just being average. But I still think in this environment you're severely handicapping yourself with so few homers. The league average for HRs in 1976 was only 94. SEVEN teams hit fewer than 100 homers.

Not really over this franchise, but some of the others he mentioned.

That '76 team was also very fast, efficient team that could get around the base paths (finished 2nd in the AL in SB's). They also knew how to hit in key situations, as they led the AL in Sac Flies.

Haven't been watching or listening to the game today but this is about all I need to know.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Nori Aoki just swung and missed at a pitch. The problem was the pitch hit him in his left shoulder. He also fell down.</p>&mdash; Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCulloughStar/statuses/471742706671042560">May 28, 2014</a></blockquote>
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It's time.....

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Heh, I've mentioned this before half heartedly, but this team would have benefited from the 90s K fences pulled in era. Or maybe not with Vargas......
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We are at the ****ing embarrassment stage. I can't defend a single one of them right now. Not one hitter looks even close to figuring it out.

Again. I think you have to hire a new GM and let him bring in his people from top to bottom. Every step of the Org needs to change. Firing Yost isn't enough IMO.

Heard some really nasty things about Grifol over the weekend... from a source inside the front office.

Basically, was told Grifol is a politician who says all the right things and knows how to play old school baseball guys who can't see any other type of game (like Dayton Moore, Ned Yost and Jack Z in Seattle) like a fiddle... but is not really qualified to be an MLB hitting coach, doesn't put in much work, and never talks about approach (focuses only on swing).

Oh, and he's two faced and willing to stab guys in the back at the drop of a hat. Stellar (and shocking, considering his rep around baseball).

If any (much less all) of that is true Duncan, that's still not on Grifol. That's on the man who hired him.

Grifol should be the first to go, and that's without factoring in what you've just said. How in the hell has he held on to his job? He must have blackmailed George Brett to vouch for him somehow.

The Dayton Moore Replacement List

Thad Levine - Assistant General Manager, Texas Rangers

Michael Girsch - Assistant General Manager, St. Louis Cardinals

David Forst - Assistant General Manager, Oakland A's

I had two reactions:

1) Disappointment. I had heard good things about Grifol from a lot of guys (not just the KC broadcast, either).

2) Resignation. Just another sign of Dayton Moore's struggle to hire good people. Really seems to get the wool pulled over his eyes quite often and easily.

Politician who is really good at playing people, from what I was told.

Yost really isn't that bad of a manager. He is pretty much league average. That being said every MLB hates their manager and questions every move they make. I'm lucky enough I guess to get hear enough talk from across the state. Fan base hated LaRussa every thing he did was wrong all the time. Same thing with Matheny now. Outside of pro basketball its the most Jimmy and Joe sport, than Xs and Os. If we replace it need to be from top down. General Manager is the more important position in baseball.

Probably more like Ed Wade, Chuck LaMar or Jim Bowden

I agree, but I don't know that Glass has the patience for yet another rebuild. Despite our collective frustration, we're still better than we were 8 years ago. That shouldn't be enough, but starting all over has to be daunting for Glass.

I'm all for poaching from either the A's or Cardinals.

As they talked about on Hardball Sports... the problem with Yost is not one specific strategic decision... it's that he's so wishy-washy and changes tactics so often.

It's the equivalent of a blackjack player who decides on each hand whether to hit on 16 or not, rather than having a plan and sticking to it.

Also... who knows what will work in terms of poaching another assistant GM...

Short of luring Beane or Friedman away from their respective locales, I wouldn't be confident in anything working until I saw it working...

And I will also say... keep the international scouts in place. That's the one area of the organization that really seems to be pulling its weight of late.

Course I think at this point we all realize we're talking about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as it relates to Yost's decisions. Our problems are systemic and already embedded by the time they get to Yost on the big club.

The Royals need to find their Carl Peterson/Marty Schottenheimer combo. This team has the feel of the 1986 Chiefs or so. Talent is in place but need the right leadership to take them to the playoffs.

You really want to bring me down by playing semantics, eh?

Would a real good gm candidate want to come here..? Grifol was all pregame prep last season ...I think he sucks

Hey, neither Carl or Marty are doing that much right now. Put Carl in the GM's office, put Marty in the dugout. What could happen?