Kevin O’Brien at Royals Reporter looks at the metrics that will define MJ Melendez in 2023. Vahe Gregorian writes that the Royals have gone from patience to urgency.Īlex Duvall at Royals Farm Report writes how Zac Gallen could be a trade target for the Royals. That, after all, is how the Royals arrived here, stuck in this rebuild, losing more games as of Wednesday’s season finale than all but six teams in franchise history.īut it’s also how they can best crawl their way out. The organization’s pitching process has been more evidently cracked than one manager, coach or pitcher can correct. Sam McDowell looks at what’s next for the Royals.īut as you consume lists of managerial candidates, keep in mind that the less glamorous hires may have larger impact on the club’s long-term future. I believe that we’d have been right in the middle of it, but we ran out of time. “I understood that we had a huge challenge in front of us, understood that there were some hurdles and this wasn’t necessarily going to be the easiest assignment, which made it even more exciting.
“I believed in the organization and where everything was headed,” Matheny said. He understands he just didn’t win enough. “Knowing that, I just wanted to be intentional down the stretch to keep doing what we were doing. All of that was leading in a direction that became pretty clear to me how this was all going to play out. There was considerable heat all season long. “I think a lot of that had to do with the theme of change that was obvious. “The day that Dayton was let go, I saw this coming,” Matheny told MLB.com on Thursday, a day after the Royals fired him following the 2022 season finale.
But we expected to be a little bit further along than we were, and we can’t avoid that that’s the case.” “There’s myself, our front office, we’re all accountable for that. There are a lot of factors that go into that. “We should’ve won more games than we did. “When you look at our record at the end of the season, something went wrong,” Picollo said. Lynn Worthy also writes about Picollo’s comments on the disappointing season. Obviously, we chose to go on a new venture.” “That’s why, when you piece it all together, you’ve got to make a decision one way or the other. But I think when we reflect on the last three years, the morale right now was low coming off a 97-loss season. I had a lot of players tell me how much they liked playing for him. There are a lot of really good things that Mike does. “I think it’s more on the evaluation and reflection of the last three years, combined with what we want to do moving forward,” Picollo said Thursday from Kauffman Stadium. Picollo’s press conference where he addressed why he dismissed manager Mike Matheny.
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