How can a team that still has not won 20 games at home bring back their manager regardless of circumstance? The Kansas City Royals are displaying how it’s possible by keeping Ned Yost around.
Kansas City Royals fans all knew going into spring training this team wasn’t going to win a division and in all likelihood wasn’t going to make the playoffs. For the past two seasons, the team was unable to finish above .500 and had lost significant contributors from the previous seasons due to free agency and trades.
As we sit and watch Cubs fans completely swarm and take over Kauffman (and soon it’ll be Cardinals fans), we have to start to ask, isn’t it time for Ned Yost to go?
As of Monday morning, the Royals’ record is 33-74. Going into the second game of the series against the Cubs, the Royals AGAIN put Alcides Escobar and Drew Butera in the lineup against the Cubs instead of youngsters Ryan O’Hearn and Brett Phillips.
Normal third baseman Hunter Dozier took his shot at designated hitter spot to ensure that Escobar can play his un-natural position of third base in the lineup while Butera will occupy the even more un-natural spot of first base.
To summarize, Butera at first with Escobar at third base because the vaunted Mike Montgomery is left-handed. To repeat, the Royals record is 33-74.
We are all either confused, annoyed or have completely lost interest in the Royals. One idea has become crystal clear in the past few weeks that is now beyond discussion. This organization has no idea what they are trying to do.
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When aging veterans of no future value are starting games over young players that could really use the opportunity to gain experience, there’s a disconnect between the manager and the front office. It’s beyond the point of arguing. It’s becoming absurd.
Either Ned Yost has to go because he’s completely not on board with playing younger players or everyone has to go because they don’t really have a plan. Actually, it’s fairly easy to say at this point both points are true, but that detailed argument will be made in the days and months to come.
Something has to change. At some point a decision has to be reached when it comes to what are the Kansas City Royals trying to accomplish this season. Because winning games is obviously not part of the plan.
No, neither Phillips nor O’Hearn are tearing the cover off the baseball. Heck, both currently are awful. But, guess what? So is everyone else not named Whit Merrifield.
Also, do I need to reference the record? Nah, it’s out there, it’s known. Instead of taking advantage of finding out about Phillips and O’Hearn when the games don’t matter in front of, at best, an indifferent fan base, this organization will allow them to watch games with slightly better seats then the rest of us. This all being while players with no future take the field in an effort yet again to slow down the tide of the worst season in franchise history.
Dayton Moore needs to be knocking on Yost’s door trying to understand what he’s doing with the lineup. If Yost won’t make changes, then it’s time for him to go. If Moore isn’t down there working to get the younger players on the field then he needs to go along with Yost.
The 2018 version of baseball in Kansas City is steamrolling towards locking up being the worst in franchise history. Someone has to pay. Because in 50 years of baseball with the Kansas City Royals, we have never seen anything this awful.