Sorry, Kansas City Royals, your World Series trophy is in another castle. Probably the same one you left it in last year before losing the key.
After ending a 30-year World Series championship in 2015, the Royals looked like a shell of that team in 2016. Between injuries, listless play and an improved division, they never seriously pushed for a division title or wild-card berth. They weren’t exactly bad either. They were royally just, as their 81-81 record would indicate.
Like we’ll do with every eliminated team in our Game Over series, we’re about to examine what went wrong for the Royals, what went right, what’s the best 2016 memory, what they need to fix and what the future might hold.