For whatever reason, I thought Kansas City Royals President Dayton Moore was about the safest executive in all of baseball. Even after an ownership change, it just seemed like Moore was so deeply engrained in the culture of the Royals that it would never be necessary enough, or palatable enough, to move on.
I suppose everything has an end, though, no matter how unlikely it seems:
Moore, 55, had been with the Royals since 2006. He told The Athletic he hopes to stay in baseball, one way or another.
It’s possible that GM J.J. Picollo will take over baseball operations from here (either by way of a promotion to president, or just by staying GM and being the top baseball exec), or it’s possible that Royals owner John Sherman will undertake a search for a new president.
If so, that’s yet another significant bit of change coming for the baseball landscape, with GM or President changes already expected or underway in Detroit, San Francisco, and Queens, and ownership changes coming in Washington and Anaheim.