Interesting
It will take a few years to be able to tell whether Moore's Royals can draft and develop pitchers better than the previous regime, which in the end is likely to determine whether the Royals can return to sustained success.
In the meantime, it will be very interesting to assess how well Moore and his people can identify useful arms out of other organizations, the free agent pool, and the scrap heap. Maybe we should keep a running list (thread) of the major league arms that he acquires and discards, and how they perform afterwards, to see how he is doing.
Certainly the arms he discarded in 2006 haven't exactly overachieve elsewhere so far. Affeldt, Bautista, Howell. Did Moore release Snyder, or was that Baird?
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