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Championship-caliber squad KC’s aim for ’17
- Updated: October 3, 2016
KANSAS CITY — Royals general manager Dayton Moore and manager Ned Yost held their season-ending news conference at Kauffman Stadium on Monday morning, both expressing disappointment and sadness about the end to the 2016 season.
“Obviously we didn’t finish the way we wanted to,” Moore said. “When we entered Spring Training, we expected to perform much better. But I think we learned a lot about our players. We’ve learned a lot about our depth.
“It’s disappointing. … Well, I don’t know if it’s disappointing. It’s sad, ending the way it did. We obviously wish we were still playing. We got work to do as every offseason demands. We’ll go to work starting [Tuesday] in meetings in Arizona and try to put a championship team on the field for 2017.”
Here are the highlights of the questions Moore fielded:
On the bullpen needing to be improved “Yeah, we’ve got to do better there,” Moore said. “It’s an area we definitely have to focus on. I feel pretty good with our starting rotation. We have some depth there. We have some proven pitchers. With Yordano Ventura, we were impressed with what he did in the second half. He continued to show promise. But I would say the bullpen is definitely an area we need to …
