Royals fire Hillman; replace him with Ned Yost

[yisman]

http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6270335/21782691?tag=breakingNewsContent;breakingNewsHolder

[gryfyn1]

And every KC fan cheers ---

next on the terrible managers hit list?

I vote Jerry Manuel

[TWEETS]

Most KC fans are stupid. They all blame it on the manager when its the players most of the time.

KC fans still believe Alex Gordon is a great player, they think Billy Butler is the next George Brett. Royals management gives away the great players and keeps the fan favorites. Dayton Moore might finally grow some balls and do the right thing for the team and not what the fans think.

[iceminers26]

Billy Butler

[gryfyn1]

No dount that Dayton Moore may the worst GM in baseball and is just as much to blame, but Hilmann was a terrible manager - no get rid of Moore too.

[keyboarding]

And every KC fan cheers ---

All 4 of them.

[Mr. Peepers]

Ned Yost was the shit in Milwaukee...He lead the brew crew to the playoffs and then got canned a week left in the regular season

[LT Profits]

Royals Manager Trey Hillman Fired

First MLB Manager to go in 2010

[gryfyn1]

'bout time

[dwaechte]

This franchise needs a winning season.

[Sunde91]

Yost?

[pavyracer]

Should we really need to fire the manager when a manager is given a team with a 30 million payroll and he is asked to compete against teams with 300 million payrolls? ARod makes more than the whole Royals roster combined.

[gryfyn1]

Should we really need to fire the manager when a manager is given a team with a 30 million payroll and he is asked to compete against teams with 300 million payrolls? ARod makes more than the whole Royals roster combined.

Royals 2010 opening day Payroll:


71.4M

Some teams with lower payrolls than KC

Tor (20-16)
WSH (19-15)
TEX (20-15)
Oak (18-17)
San Diego (22-12)

[yisman]

http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4299:inside-the-numbers-2010-mlb-opening-day-payrolls&catid=26:editorials&Itemid=39

Interesting. I didn't think KC spent that much. I wonder where all that money is going. Greinke is the only top player on the team, and he's making under $10 million.

[gryfyn1]

http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2004/12/kansas-city-royals_28.html

Gullien 12M
Meche 12.4M

[yisman]

awful contracts

so they do splurge occasionally, but make poor decisions.

And paying Farnsworth over 4.5 million a year? That overrated punk?

[gryfyn1]

awful contracts

so they do splurge occasionally, but make poor decisions.

And paying Farnsworth over 4.5 million a year? That overrated punk?

hah , yea in addition to Hillman being a poor manager Dayton Moore is an absolute train wreck of a GM - he makes Ned Coletti look like a genius,

[yisman]

funny thing is, when he was hired as GM, I heard members of the media praising the move, that he would turn around the franchise, etc.

Jose Guillen and Gil Meche are your free agent splurges? That's not good money management. Look at their track record before they got eight figures a season from KC. I mean, come on.

[pavyracer]

So it's the GM who needs to get fired not the coach. Who in their right mind would pay 12m for Meche and Guillen? Is the manager suppose to teach them how to pitch and hit after paying these two bums 12m a piece to do nothing?