Close your eyes and try to remember the end of March, if you would. The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has just collapsed. Jo-Ann, the venerable arts and crafts store, filed for bankruptcy a few weeks ago. The Gonzaga Bulldogs recently walloped the Kansas Jayhawks in the NCAA Tournament. And nobody thought that the Kansas City Royals would be any good when baseball started.
Here at Royals Review, twelve of us tried to predict what would happen in the 2024 MLB season. As a group, our median prediction for the Royals was 75 wins. ZiPS and PECOTA, two of the most well-known and accurate projection systems, thought that the Royals would win 76 games and 70 games, respectively.