2023 – A new beginning for the Royals. Matt Quatraro era begins. A year to see which of our young players will make up the core going forward. Can Bobby Witt Jr become a superstar SS or will go to the hot corner? Will Brady Singer take the next step forward? Will Salvy be Salvy? Will Big Vin or Pratto take first base? Will they find a position for MJ? Who else emerges from the youth movement? Not to mention the development of the new downtown stadium.
Free Agents/Trades Acquisitions
Jordan Lyles, RHP
Ryan Yarbrough, LHP
Josh Taylor, LHP
Aroldis Chapman, LHP
Top 10 Prospects from Baseball America
1. Gavin Cross, OF
2. Cayden Wallace, 3B
3. Drew Waters, OF
4. Ben Kudrna, RHP
5. Frank Mozzicato, LHP
6. Maikel Garcia, SS
7. Tyler Gentry, OF
8. Nick Loftin, OF/3B
9. Angel Zerpa, LHP
10. Carter Jensen, C [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
Whoa Whoa Whoa now, in 16 years they had 2 winning seasons...
The religious stuff will always be joked about because he brought that upon himself. Sending the team to an anti-porn seminar in spring training. The comment about building better fathers and sons than baseball players..the inside reports that the Royals would move guys up and down on their draft boards due to religious faith. You bring jokes and skepticism to yourself when you engage in those things.
But to be honest at the end of the day, I could give a shit about his faith or religion. He completely lost ability to build a competent baseball team. After 2015 he couldn't make a trade or FA signing to save his life and he hadn't drafted well since years before that.
The man was unable to pivot in an ever changing landscape of baseball.
Originally Posted by Prison Bitch:
Where did you read that?
You should ask Duncan about it, he had sources in the organization that told him those things mattered to their draft boards.
Like I won't argue that Gavin Cross was going in round 1 whether the Royals took him or not....but it isn't some wild coincidence that Moore drafted a guy who he knew his dad, the dad ran a religious based traveling baseball team etc etc. [Reply]
Originally Posted by penguinz:
Dayton would often say in interviews how the quality of the person is just as if not more important than the skill as a player.
Which when your job is to evaluate baseball talent is a ridiculous thing to say. [Reply]
That's always been the problem. I at least hope no one cares that Moore was heavily religious, but it should've had absolutely no bearing on how he constructed a baseball team, which from multiple angles seems to have not been the case. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
That's always been the problem. I at least hope no one cares that Moore was heavily religious, but it should've had absolutely no bearing on how he constructed a baseball team, which from multiple angles seems to have not been the case.
Why would anyone care if someone else is or is not religious? People spend way too much time worrying about things that have no impact on their own lives. [Reply]
Originally Posted by penguinz:
Dayton would often say in interviews how the quality of the person is just as if not more important than the skill as a player.
Originally Posted by Mecca:
You should ask Duncan about it, he had sources in the organization that told him those things mattered to their draft boards.
Like I won't argue that Gavin Cross was going in round 1 whether the Royals took him or not....but it isn't some wild coincidence that Moore drafted a guy who he knew his dad, the dad ran a religious based traveling baseball team etc etc.
