The Royals sign HoRam and plan to use him in the rotation:

[Club] officials are convinced Ramirez can be an effective starter and inject a left-handed element into their rotation. He was 38-29 with a 4.55 ERA in 104 starts from 2003-07 for Atlanta and Seattle.

“We expect Horacio Ramirez to be in our rotation next season,” Moore said. “He’s healthy, and some of our other guys have options. We like the idea of having at least one left-hander in our rotation.”

What an example of Bavasi-style results based analysis.  Despite HoRam's lack of overall pitching skills, Bavasi thought  HoRam was an unpolished gem because HoRam had some success in Atlanta.  Predictably, HoRam stinks it up in Seattle so badly even Bavasi lets him go. 

HoRam hooks up with KC on a minor league contract and stumbles into a lucky streak.  Moore then trades him to the White Sox, and I'm thinking Moore's showing signs of a few functioning synapses when Moore takes the opportunity to flip HoRam to Kenny Williams based on a lucky streak. But no ..... it appears that Moore actually thought Ramirez was as good as his results in KC last year.

It was ugly when David Glass fired Allard Baird by stringing Baird from a tree, cutting off his nuts, and letting him twist while onlookers averted their eyes.  But I thought that long-suffering Royals fans had a glimmer of hope with Dayton Moore coming on-board.

Looking at Moore in action though, we see things such as the Jacobs trade and this Ramirez signing.  It's almost as if Moore's in a trance being led by the spirit of Bavasi.

I really feel sorry for Royals fans. (At least the ones who didn't post about Jacobs at FanGraphs. The KC idiots who did post there deserve Moore and more.)  They've been through so much, and it looks as if they are yet consigned to damnation.  No town, with the exception of Oklahoma City, deserves what is being heaped on KC.