After 16 seasons in Kansas City, former Royals club president Dayton Moore says he was “shocked” by his firing, in an appearance on the “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast with sportswriter Rob Bradford. In his first public comments since the press conference announcing his dismissal in September, Moore told Bradford he did not anticipate losing his job.
“I was shocked. I was surprised. I didn’t see it coming. We had been making plans for what we were going to do not only for the upcoming season but the next three years.”
After winning back-to-back pennants, culminating in a championship in 2015, Moore’s Royals spent the next seven seasons without a winning season, including two 100-plus-loss seasons and a 97-loss season in 2022.