Kevin O’Brien at Royals Reporter writes about the contrast between Dayton Moore and J.J. Picollo.
As I have written before, Moore was the “anti-Moneyball” GM, which was refreshing at times, especially with every baseball club trying to copy Oakland or Houston, or Tampa Bay in one way or the other over the past two decades since the book and movie came out.
That said, his stubbornness and resilience to changes in the modern game (especially on the analytical end) contributed to Moore’s downfall.
Picollo on the other hand seems to have a much different approach to analytics and building and promoting an organization, which he is now fully in control of, now that Moore is no longer with the Royals in any kind of capacity.