With a week of baseball in the books—which is like 2.7 weeks of non-Covid baseball—and with the Royals wrapping their first road trip of the season, it’s a good time to take stock of the offense.
Through seven games, the Royals are scoring an average of 4.43 runs per game, which has them in shouting distance of the league average. Kind of stunning they’ve been that productive given their .274 OBP ranks 29th in MLB. But they’ve hit nine dingers, which is tied for eighth most and their team slugging percentage of .407 (fueled partially by Thurday night’s doubles barrage) is above league average.