Dayton Moore may be facing one of his biggest years as a General Manager, overseeing a rebuild that will determine if the recent championship was a blip in a decades-long era of bad baseball, or whether this franchise can enjoy intermittant periods of success. Most of the heroes from the championship club have departed, with Kelvin Herrera traded last month to the Nationals. The Herrera trade prompted this anecdote from Dayton Moore, relayed by Rustin Dodd of The Athletic.
While discussing the Kelvin Herrera trade, Royals GM Dayton Moore remembered a story involving Reds exec Walt Jocketty from the Johnny Cueto deal in 2015: pic.