The Royals and New York Mets will meet for the first time since June of 2016, which you might recall came just a season after the Royals beat the Mets in a little tournament called the World Series. Things have changed a bit since then with the Royals becoming a bottom feeder and the Mets having one of the weirder years in recent memory. They started out with their brand new agent turned general manager with hopes of competing. They spent a lot, both in prospect capital and money, to try to compete and things weren’t really working out, falling to 11 games below .