Thanks to Royals Review, a link to a Trey Hillman interview with Soren Petro, a KC sports talk station host.  Part of the interview (beginning about the 12:00 mark) includes Hillman talking about the KC starting pitchers this year vs. last year.  Hillman lays out that he thinks the big issue is that guys haven't been mentally conditioned to finish games.  He talks about that as the difference between this year and last year. Putting the dots together, he must be thinking that the reason Meche (and Bannister) went on the DL this year when their workloads increased is because they didn't have a proper "finish the game" mindset. 

Beginning at about 15:30 Petro talks about his reviews of how the Royals pitchers have fared in their next start after being pushed deep into games with high pitch counts.  Hillman dances away from the question, but eventually says that happens because they're not mentally tough.  Where have we heard that before???  To me that sounds a lot like Gil Meche (and others on the staff) just aren't tough enough and we need to teach them how to get deep in games.

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The parallels between the current Royals management and the Bavasi Mariners continue.