Royals Rumblings - News for December 4, 2017
In interviews, Royals general manager Dayton Moore has publicly mulled the idea of taking a step back, though he loathes the philosophy of “tanking”, a maneuver to intentionally be bad at the major-league level. And yet, the Royals, as currently constructed, are positioned to lose a lot in both 2018 and 2019. They stand to gain from it, too.
There is little value in getting caught in the middle, as Hahn found the hard way. There can be value in losing.