And I think as you can see most of posts are all baseball discussion. Mostly about pitching, and I have many topics posted.

At least you can be happy with the best pitcher in baseball. And Meche should have a nice rebound year, Hochevar should improve, etc.

FWIW - I think there is an awful lot of meddling and decisions by the owner. When a club is rebuilding and not expected to contend and the payroll is as high as the Royals means the owner is probably calling the shots. This is Baltimore 3-5 years ago.

If he’s focusing on the farm to the detriment of the major league club, he’s an awful GM. A GM’s first job is to make the major league team competitive. Moore has never committed to a whole-sale rebuild, so you have to evaluate him as a GM who’s tried to keep his team competitive by spending significant money on major league talent while building the farm system.

The idea that the Royals are beyond contention is absurd. First of all, if that’s true and Moore should be evaluated as working with a losing team, he should have blown up the core 2 years ago, traded David DeJesus and Gil Meche for whatever prospects he could get in return, and committed to a full-scale rebuild. Second, no team with a 9-WAR pitcher, a 3-WAR left fielder, and a 3-war second baseman is out of contention the day the season starts. Greinke, Callaspo, DeJesus, and Butler +21 replacement level players should have made the Royals capable of winning 62 games. They won 67. If Moore had equalled the market rate for marginal wins with his $70 million budget with that talent on board, the Royals should have been a 75-win team. Any GM should have been able to field a respectable team with Moore’s payroll that had a shot at sniffing .500. Moore scraped together a grand total of 5 marginal wins for $53 million.

Dayton Moore didn’t ignore the big-league team to build through the farm. He spent a lot of money on the major league team, and he spent nearly all of it really, really badly. Moore isn’t carrying out a rebuilding scheme. That, I could get behind. He’s not acquiring guys with the idea of flipping them at the trade deadline, or trading the few decent veterans he’s got for prospects. In fact, he actually (inexplicably) traded one of his live arms in the high minors for another veteran at the deadline, selling low on Dan Cortes! He’s treading water between a full-fledged rebuild and attempting respectability, and has been since he took over. That’s a really bad way to win in a small market.

Dayton Moore sucks.

The fact that his scouting department has collected a handful of decent arms in the minors really doesn’t do much to loosen his grip on the title of worst GM in baseball for me. I’m not even sure he should get credit for building a solid farm system, either. We’ll see about Crow, but Moustakas and Hosmer haven’t exactly been great returns on the #2 and #3 overall picks to-date.

General Managers are tasked with putting the organization in a position to succeed. Moore’s been a colossal failure at the major league level, and so-so in developing his minor-league system.