It's no secret that Baseball Prospectus' preseason projections for the Royals are usually far off the mark.
Over the previous five seasons, Baseball Prospectus has predicted the Royals to win an average of 11 fewer games than they actually did when the games started.
So it was no surprise that when Baseball Prospectus' preseason PECOTA projections* were released in February, it had the Royals winning 66 games. To be fair, this was before a large batch of signings took place across Major League Baseball. That would make it difficult to project what would happen during the season.