A baseball season is a sprawling endeavor, a marathon that can stretch from the early weeks of February to the first days of November. The only sure thing? There will be chaos.
There is no telling where this 2017 Royals season will go, no template for predicting the future, no accurate system to forecast the streaks and injuries and little moments that build into 162 games. In 2015, the Royals brushed off the disappointment of a Game 7 World Series loss at Kauffman Stadium and captured the franchise’s first world championship in 30 years, rolling to an American League Central crown and barreling through the postseason on a comeback-fueled bender.