As the losses piled up yet again and the on-field product was flatly noncompetitive, the Kansas City Royals kept insisting that everything was doing great until the bitter end. “We’re not disappointed one bit. We’re really excited about where we are,” Dayton Moore said just a few days before getting fired and a few weeks before the Royals clinched their 97th loss and seventh consecutive year in search of a winning record.
The Royals haven’t been just randomly bad. There are reasons behind why the Royals have been bad: reasons why they have struggled to develop starting pitching and why they always seem to be holding the bag when a player declines and why, in a comparitively weak division, they have rarely played meaningful games in June, let alone September.