With the off-season largely done, the prognosticators are coming out with their projections for the 2023 season. Dan Szymborski at Fangraphs released his early projected standings for ZIPS and has the Royals projected for 70 wins, the worst in the American League. That would still only put them 13 games behind first-place Cleveland, and just one game back of fourth-place Detroit. The Twins project for 80 wins with Chicago projected for a disappointing 74. No team in the AL is projected for better than 90 wins, which shows a bit how the projected standings flatten out at the upper and lower ends.
Projection systems have Royals as one of the worst teams in baseball
