Kansas City Royals: Front office gut check time for organization
By John McCarty
Secondly, players come and players go. That is a reality of sports. The organization, fan base, everyone must get past the notion there is any semblance of value in a player retiring with the Royals. Fans simply want to see a winning baseball team more then they care about who’s on the team.
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We know that because attendance has decreased every year since 2015 and is now dropping like a rock as this team continue to play boring and bad baseball. That leads to the over reaching point that is simply this: When players reach a point where they can bring back good trade value, it’s time to trade the player.
Lastly, the organization has to embrace their process, their identity, and their core values. It is the traits in the players that make a winner, not the other way around. Embrace it, scout it, sign in, develop it.
Perhaps the Royals are getting back to that, targeting defense in the acquisition of Blake Perkins in the Kelvin Herrera trade along with young arm Yohanse Morel. As the organization works to continue work the trade deadline, hopefully that continues to be a point of emphasis.
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Any small market team has and will for the foreseeable future be compared to Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics. While the A’s have struggled in the playoffs, no other small market team can match the A’s for competitive consistency. Billy Beane has learned, adapted (to a degree) and stays true to who he believes the A’s are.
Kansas City has found what they scout to, how they want to build their team, and how they are going to reach the playoffs again, hopefully by 2022. What’s important is the organization to understand, it’s about the process.