The Kansas City Royals are in the midst of a disastrous 2018 season, and general manager Dayton Moore has seen enough.

Moore built the Royals' 2015 World Series championship team, but the 2018 edition has fallen on hard times and is now on pace to finish with a franchise-record 107 losses, according to Fangraphs. The 32-73 Royals have won just 12 games since the calendar turned to June, and own a major-league-low minus-196 run differential.

Entering play Monday, only the Baltimore Orioles (32-74) were standing in the way of Kansas City occupying the league's basement.

"I'm embarrassed (by) the way our major-league team has performed," Moore told MLB Network Radio on Monday. "I didn't necessarily expect us to be in the playoffs this year but I didn't expect us to be on pace to lose 100-plus games. That's embarrassing to me personally, it's embarrassing to our organization. Mr. Glass (owner David Glass) doesn't expect that either.

"Major-league players aren't paid to play, they're paid to win. And so it's our responsibility to get players on this major-league team that understand that, and they gotta go out and compete."

The Royals franchise has experienced a slow slide since over the past three years, having not posted a winning record since 2015. During the offseason, Moore could only watch as playoff stars Eric Hosmer and Lorenzo Cain moved on in free agency. Earlier this week, the team's rebuild kicked into higher gear when popular third baseman Mike Moustakas was dealt to the Milwaukee Brewers for a pair of youngsters - one of whom, outfielder Brett Phillips, took Moustakas' spot on the Royals' roster.

But just because the front office appears to be embracing a rebuild doesn't mean tanking is acceptable.

Moore still has some potential trade chips that could bring more talent into the farm system, including second baseman Whit Merrifield, who's under team control for several seasons to come, and left-hander Danny Duffy, who's under contract for another three seasons. The 51-year-old executive insisted those players won't be traded for prospects who are years away from reaching the big leagues.

"The truth of the matter is we're not close to moving Duffy or Whit Merrifield, because as I mentioned earlier in the call, we wanted to acquire upper-level talent," Moore said.

"We gotta go out and compete every single night, our major-league players, and so we're not going to move those players (Duffy and Merrifield) ... for prospects. I mean, if we end up moving any of our players like that who we have under control that are (of) value to us, it'll be something we look at in the offseason, and how can we get back major-league talent to help us win more games in 2019 and 2020."