As of May 23rd, the 2016 KC Royals have scored 152 runs. That is better than only the Phillies and Braves. With a run differential of -13, the Pythagorean win/loss expectation for KC is 20-23. In other words, their current record of 22-21 is slightly better than it should be given the run differential.
So exactly how bad has the KC Royals offense been? Well, the table below shows some statistics of the 2014, 2015, and the current 2016 Royals, as well as the league average from 2014-2016. The data for the table was retrieved from fangraphs.