Kansas City Royals: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Many fans seem to point out the late 90s and early 2000 Yankee teams when they signed almost any player they wanted for loaded contracts.
Or they may point out the Dodgers or San Diego teams who seem to be able to hand out an 83 million dollar contract extension to Wil Myers and over a 140 million dollar contract to Eric Hosmer.
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These same fans may point out that the Royals value has gone from 96 million in 2000 to one billion in 2019, according to Christina Gough with Statista.com. They will almost certainly point out that Glass has filled his pockets with more money every year without spending money on the big league team.
If those assumptions were true, why would he support Moore’s efforts to build and rebuild the farm system? Why would he give the okay to sign top national and international draft picks?
The real answer is that he has always supported any plan that would resemble the sort of ideas that were pressed onto him during his Walmart days. These ideas were not cheap, they were not a glass half empty type of decisions (like the Wilpons and Fowlers of the league), but they were shrewd-small business-type decisions that make a company valuable in the long-term.
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While the rebuild seems slow, this plan works as we have seen in the past. Glass does support the team by supporting the architect that has a solid plan that uses the available resources wisely (even when there are some swing and misses).
The Glass is half full and the Royals will be playing meaningful games soon rather than later.