Moore: Royals need more innings from starters

Royals GM Dayton Moore and manager Ned Yost wrap up the team's 2015 championship season and look ahead to 2016In 2015, the Royals finished last in the American League in innings pitched from their starters, at 912 2/3. That flaw, of course, was masked by a brilliant bullpen. But Moore is wary of continuing to tax that bullpen in the future.

"It's unrealistic that we can put that much pressure on the back end of our bullpen over the course of 162 games," Moore said. "You can do it for a month. You can do it for the playoffs. You can do it for six weeks.

"But you can't for 162. We had [closer Greg Holland] for most of the 162 and he gave us everything he had. And when he went down in September,…