The two biggest things that probably turned people off were his insistence that Paul Gibson remains in charge of the minor league pitching and the fact that he doesn’t necessarily see them spending a lot of money this offseason. For a team as bad as the Royals have been, there has been remarkably little movement basically anywhere in the organization for years, so to be able to anticipate future changes, we’re in for a fun winter, I think.Īnd you can follow along with my thoughts for the offseason if you subscribe to Inside the Crown for FREE! You’ll get my analysis sent right to your inbox many mornings.Īfter the Royals fired Mike Matheny at a bit of a surprising time, JJ Picollo spoke yesterday afternoon to talk about the firing of his manager and of Cal Eldred and I think he kind of put a wet blanket over the optimism in a lot of ways.
We obviously won’t see much player movement until the World Series ends, so we’ll certainly have to wait for that, but now we’re going to be dealing with a fun combination of watching teams who are better than the Royals show why they’re better as they play in the playoffs and of hearing rumors of who is a candidate to fill the open managerial role and coaching spots. As I wrote last week, we don’t really know how they’re going to approach this offseason, but we know they need to do some work to both make the roster fit better and to supplement their young talent. The Royals finished their season two days ago and now we know they’ll start 2023 with a new manager, a new pitching coach and a few new guys as well likely on that staff.
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