In this week’s Monday Notes, I gave a brief look at the strikeout numbers for the Royals staff, and more specifically the starting staff.
That starting staff, as of this morning, is striking out just a tick over 10 hitters every nine innings. To put that into context, last years starting rotation struck out just over six per nine.
Kris Medlen continued that trend in his first start of the 2016 season by striking out seven over five innings of work.
I’ll start this topic off with the obvious, which is that it has only been seven games.