As reported by the KC Star yesterday. GM Dayton Moore said Royals Manager Trey Hillman will be back to lead the Royals for next season 2010. I am not sure why this is announced at this point in time as the Royals ( IMHO ) are heading towards yet another 100 loss season. Perhaps GMDM realizes that his off season moves are a disaster and knows that Trey has no talent to work with on this team which is ultimately his fault, perhaps.... For many reasons there is a fair number of fans and those in the media who have been critical and occasionally bewildered by decisions made by Trey Hillman regarding the talent that is there.
Two of the most discussed is needlessly running up pitch counts when Gil Meche starts and none use or questionable use of Joakim Soria. The Royals find themselves without Meche after the All Star break for at least one turn in the rotation as he is hindered by back problems again. Use of Soria was questioned early in the season and later revealed that he was hurt and did not pitch for nearly a month from early May to early June. It looked as if he was back in familiar form as he appeared in 6 games between June 28th and July 9th, getting 6 saves in 6 1/3 innings of work while only giving up 1 hit and no walks while striking out 11. His last appearance was before the All Star break on July 12th, a game the Royals were losing 5-0 to the RedSox, Trey put Soria in to pitch the bottom of the 8th. He did not look particularly good in a curious time to use him, although maybe the thinking was to get him some work as he would be off during the AS break. Which leads us to the just completed sweep at home to the the Tampa Rays in which the Royals lost leads and ultimately the game in the 8th inning of all three games. Despite taking leads into late innings Joakim Soria never made an appearance.
Your guess is as good as mine...???
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