Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) – The Kansas City Royals fired manager Trey Hillman shortly after the team’s 6-4 win over the Cleveland Indians on Thursday and replaced him with former big league skipper Ned Yost.”I just felt the best thing for our baseball team and our organization moving forward was to make a change and Ned Yost is going to be the individual who will lead that change as we continue to press forward and create a willing culture here in Kansas City,” Royals general manager Dayton Moore said.The 47-year-old Hillman was notified prior to the game he would be dismissed, but insisted on managing the series finale.
Cheap MLB Kansas City Royals Jerseys he had a 151-207 mark in two-plus seasons with the club after managing the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in Japan’s Pacific League from 2003-2007.”Sometimes a different face, a different voice is a good thing,” Hillman said. “I can look back on this experience and say that I know definitively having only 12 wins so far on May 13th, that’s not what you’re looking for.”
Thursday’s win snapped a seven-game losing streak for Kansas City, but the team still sits at 12-23 and is just one game ahead of Baltimore for the worst record in the majors.Yost, 55, had been in the Royals front office, serving as a special advisor to baseball operations, a position he was appointed to in January.
Wholesale MLB Jerseys Yost spent 2003-2008 with Milwaukee and managed the Brewers to a 457-502 record, but was fired in September of 2008.At least one AL executive believes the Rangers are out of the running for Cliff Lee.”There is no way the Rangers go for six years and $140 million,” an AL executive told the New York Post of what other officials believe Lee is looking for. “At t
hat money they are out of it. That leaves the Yankees.”Lee holds the keys to the Rangers’ off-season plans. Many expect him to decide where he will play the next several seasons at the winter meetings, which open Dec. 6.
The Rangers, who acquired him in July in a trade with Seattle , and the New York Yankees are considered the front-runners for Lee.Should Lee not return, the Rangers could still pursue a front-end starter. The free-agent market thins out after Lee,
CK T-Shirt, but Kansas City has made it clear that 2009 Cy Young winner Zack Greinke is on the trading block. “They are asking a lot,” an industry source told the Post of the Royals.The good news for Rangers fans:
Cheap Jerseys Wholesale The Yankees are unlikely to get Greinke. One, the Yankees would have to give up top catching prospect Jesus Montero, and the Post believes the Yankees firmly believe Greinke doesn’t want any part of pitching in The Bronx.The Post reported that Texas making contingency plans regarding Lee not returning is an indication to the rest of the industry that Lee is headed to the Yankees. Meanwhile, the Rangers have enough prospects to land Greinke.”They have enough to do that,” a scout said
cheap jerseys from china of the Rangers’ system. “And the Royals and Rangers share a [spring training] complex [in Arizona], so the Royals see those kids every day. [The Rangers] don’t have that one impact guy, but they have a lot of guys who will be solid major-league players.”