Well, Opening Day is over and in the books. The Royals have never been a good team on Opening Day, but this was perhaps the worst season opener of them all, as the team gave up 14 runs, most in franchise history to start the year.
After a cold winter and six months without baseball, you can forgive us for overanalyzing one game, especially with an off-day today. Let’s try not to overreact too much to one bad loss, instead, let’s take away these five reasonable takes from Game 1 of the 162-game schedule.
Home runs could be an issue for Danny Duffy and the entire rotation
The Royals are on pace to give up 972 home runs after the six-dinger outburst by White Sox on Thursday.