Royals Prefer Trades

Until MLB has some sort of salary cap the Royals will forever suck.

So essentially nothing that Dayton Moore does matters.

Not good - KC just a AAAA team. Salary dump every four years. 2010 fifth place 64 wins book it.
Sad for a great baseball town.

"Until MLB has some sort of salary cap the Royals will forever suck.

So essentially nothing that Dayton Moore does matters."

Teams with medium to small payrolls compete every year, while top tier teams in terms of payroll flounder. Good management and ownership can put winning teams on the field cheaply if they have the ability and foresight required. The Royals--like the Pirates and a few others--seem to lack any understand of whats needed on the field or how it can be acquired at discounted rates. Simply capping player salaries would do nothing but insure the profitability of owners who are already making money hand over fist while crying poverty to get stadiums built at taxpayer expense. The Royals would still be awful with a cap, just more valuable.

Mule - Well said. A good craftsman doesn't blame the tool if his work isn't up to his standards. Similarly a well run baseball team wouldn't have to cry about payroll.

It pisses me off when people still compare the Pirates to the Royals. This is not 2007 people, where the Pirates would trade prospects for expensive veteran arms like Matt Morris! This is 2009! Get your facts straight.

The Pirates are rebuilding, trading away veterans for youngsters. At least they are doing it right. The Pirates are closer to competing than the Royals. So quit comparing the two now.

I believe that Callaspo is being discussed to the Dodgers and that Ellis could be involved as well. I also know it is very easy to bash Moore and some of his moves. However, I think there is more to this potential deal then Callaspo for Ellis straight up. Dodgers would have already done it already and laughed all the way to spring training if that were the case.
Either a pitcher like Bannister is being talked about in a bigger deal, or there is at least another player to be sent with Ellis to KC.
The only sure thing is that Callaspo is a productive, minimum salary player, that should be of interest to the Dodgers as well as teams like maybe the Tigers to replace Polanco.

That is the most rational post on this thread, bigscott. Ellis isn't the only piece going to come back, so everybody calm down.

Small market teams seem to compete every year with smaller payrolls then the Royals. If MLB adopted a salary cap, it still wouldn't matter, because the bottom line is decision-making. Management has to make better decisions; as well as ownership. It starts from the top and works its way down. You have to draft better. Instead of drafting Mike Stodolka, draft Chase Utly. The draft is a complete crap shoot, and everything is second guessed, but until the Royals start making better decisions, they will continue to play this poorly.

Small market teams win, but the Vegas odds on them winning are always smaller or most often smaller than large market teams like the Yankees. A bad year for the Yanks is to not make the second round of the playoffs. While a good year for a small market team is to make the playoffs. A salary-cap would not be save-all that MLB needs, but it would level the free agent playing field a little.