State of the Royals

The Royals' offseason has been very disappointing for me.  The Wil Myers trade is part of it, but I think the bigger picture for me is that the Royals are not a smart organization.

They started the offseason by firing their hitting coach.  I liked Kevin Seitzer but if their was one knock on him it was the overall plate discipline of the team.  But the reasoning for the firing was because the Royals were not hitting enough home runs.  If you watched the Royals last year you never thought "wow, if we could just hit more home runs we could contend."  You thought "stop trying to hit a home run every time." Six of our starting position player I consider to have bad plate discipline, Hosmer, (the worst) Moustakas, Salvador Perez, (has been able to get away with it) Cain, Giovatella, and Wil Myers we are unsure of yet, oh wait... shit.  Yes some of those have the potential to hit home runs, but the overall message to the team shouldn't be hit more home runs, it should be stay patient.  I've heard rumors that the Royals are going to move in the fences but that hurt a lot of the pitching staff if they did, especially Chen.

They resigned Hochevar... I'll move on.

I don't want to break down the Wil Myers trade again but I feel the Royals made a dumb decision.  They had a need in right field, and in the starting rotation.  Wil Myers fit the need, and was under contract at a great price for 6 years.  We traded him to fill another need and took on 10 million in salary (16 if you count Davis).  I know the Royals never considered this, because free agency is a tough concept to grasp, and they are already spending so much money (sarcasm), why not sign Michael Bourn.  They needed an outfielder, and a leadoff man, he fits both.  And at 4 years and 48 million the price wasn't too high, you also can't make the argument that he wanted to go to a contender because he went to a team at the same level of the Royals.  It worries me a little that he was available this late but I think he would of fit in Kansas City.  If the Royals made that move I would hate the Wil Myers trade a lot less.



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I would like to end this post by asking anybody... ESPN, if they want to take back anything they said in the past couple years about Lebron... nobody?  I think Lebron will retire as the best that ever played, Jordan will have the "best scorer" title but Lebron's all around game sets him apart.  Call me crazy but it's my opinion.