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Any defensive alignment without Merrifield at second base is probably the wrong one

The Kansas City Royals have a good kind of conundrum this season: they have too many good players for too few infield positions. This is a good kind of problem, because the opposite problem—not having enough good players for the number of defensive positions and lineup slots—is how you get the current Royals run of six consecutive seasons without a winning record.

To recap: the Royals have Bobby Witt Jr., who is unanimously considered one of the two or so best prospects in all of baseball and will almost certainly make the team out of Spring Training. They also have Nicky Lopez, a 27-year-old in his athletic prime who came off a 4.