Sam Mellinger wrote a fascinating piece earlier this week about the Royals and their current plans for the team. Appropriately the article refers to this as “The Process 2.0”. The Royals are claiming through Mr. Mellinger that they’re attempting to play Moneyball - even if one executive erroneously claimed they were not, a problem in and of itself if we’re being honest - by focusing on attributes they believe to be undervalued. Those attributes are speed and defense.
If that sounds a bit familiar it’s actually something they claimed to want back in 2014, too.