The Royals have gotten off to a good start, in part, because the offense has been better than expected. The team finished last year with the eighth-worst runs-per-game in baseball at 4.17, but they’ve managed to improve that number significantly this year to 4.81, good for eighth-best.
Still, anyone that has watched the Royals knows that the margin of error is thin. They’re batting just .235/.310/.376 in the month of June, a 62 wRC+ that ranks tenth-worst in baseball for the month (and yet, their 4.4 runs per game this month are 14th-best in baseball - go figure).