The Kansas City Royals have made a major change to their office, parting ways with longtime team president Dayton Moore.
Moore confirmed that he was released, as first reported by Ken Rosenthal and Andy McCullough of The Athletic. Moore said he was “very grateful” for the opportunity to run the Royal team, but was “disappointed” at not being able to see the full process of the team’s current rebuild.
Moore took over the Royals in 2006, making him one of the longest-serving executives in baseball. It took him nearly a decade to make the franchise a success, but his patience paid off when the Royals won consecutive AL pennants in 2014 and 2015. Kansas City narrowly lost in seven games. with the San Francisco Giants in the 2014 World Series but beat the Mets in five games a year later to win the championship.
Since then, the Royals have not been able to reach those heights again. Kansas City entered Wednesday’s game 59-89, and despite promise at the MLB level, the team clearly didn’t progress as quickly as expected or expected by possession. Organizational culture also seems to have suffered a blow.
Moore is still only 55, so he has a good chance of landing another executive job elsewhere if that’s what he wants.
