The Royals are set to play game #81 today, the exact halfway point of the season. April was too early to evaluate this team, we were told that even May was too early. But surely the halfway point is enough sample to call this team what it is.
It’s hard to think of a more disastrous 81 game start to a season than this one. Only the 2004-2006 and 2018-2019 teams have been worse through 80 games than this one. All of those teams went on to lose 100 games.
But we all knew those teams would be bad.