Comments on: Organizational Rankings: #27

By: Joe R

Joe R — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:40:06 +0000

I often times criticize Dave Cameron for stuff, like being over-reliant on the numbers while ignoring a team situation, or flaunting UZR as a metric with real stability (at least giving the impression of it in his writing). But while many an analyst was in love with the Royals for some reason, Cameron was dead on. When you’re giving Willie Bloomquist nearly 400 PA’s with a month to go in the season, you probably aren’t a very good ballclub.

By: Aldo

Aldo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:07:30 +0000

A Farnsworth, a Bloomquist, and Betancourt (Yuneisky not Rafael) later.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/a-notes-post

Whoops.

By: Basil Ganglia

Basil Ganglia — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:17:20 +0000

Dayton Moore, addressing the black hole at that is the Royals shortstop situation, trades two pitching prospects to acquire the starting shortstop of a team for which shortstop is an equal or greater black hole.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:33:20 +0000

This is a terrible post, to be quite frank. I think a couple of guys said it better then I have the desire to above; especially “Tim”.

Quick Fact: A and AA teams for the Royals have been winning championships in the Minors over the past two years…the Royals are pretty loaded in these classes. The Burlington Bees (“A” ball, who’s pitching was absolutely loaded last year; which this post above makes no reference to) thoroughly dominated in the playoffs.

Lastly, Dayton Moore is a misunderstood man by many. He is a bit smarter then you give him credit for. The fact that Arbuckle (the man he was the brains in the Phillies org.) came to join with him says alot about who Dayton is about a baseball guy.

Let’s be a bit more honese in the organization reviews.

By: KevinM

KevinM — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:41:20 +0000

An honest look at the Royals. Other sites are talking about how the Royals are going in the right direction. This is baloney. Any team that trades for Mike Jacobs and signs Willie Bloomquist and Kyle Farnsworth is not going in the right direction. Maybe the Royals are good enough to not lose 100 games but they are not a contender and aren’t in a position to contend any time soon.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:56:45 +0000

David, given the level of intelligence shown by your writing I have to ask, do you mumble out the words and someone else types or do you have one of those programs that can decipher your speech and translate it into English?

By: dickshivers

dickshivers — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:48:42 +0000

What?

By: DS

DS — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:57:17 +0000

I got this far:

“While Glass isn’t the meddler that Peter Angelos or Drayton McLane are, his hand is still too heavily involved in the direction of the baseball operations department.”

What in the hell are you talking about? The Glass family has absolutely no role in the direction of the baseball operations department, and it hasn’t since Dayton Moore made that a condition of his job acceptance. David Glass just writes the checks now (and they’re a lot bigger checks than they used to be). He’s about as “hands off” as an owner can get.

By: Bob Bastard

Bob Bastard — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:28:23 +0000

Jacobs’ 90th percentile CHONE projection prorated to 650 plate appearances is in the 2.5 WAR range, to get an idea of how bad he is.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:35:13 +0000

Alright…..I’ve got to cry shenanigans now….

KC should be ranked at least #26!

I’m not sure how the rest of the list could be taken seriously no matter how it shakes out.