Time to give some credit where it’s due.
Earlier this week, I wrote about how by any standard, Royals General Manager Dayton Moore had an abysmal off season.
One name I left off the ledger (intentionally, not to conform to some preconceived notion) was Homer Bailey. Bailey was excluded for two reasons.
One: He was not on the Opening Day roster. Opening Day is not some arbitrary point on the baseball calendar. It’s literally the first day of the season. It’s the data point where payrolls are calculated. Even though he was as good as on the team when they broke camp, Bailey was not officially on the roster.