Baseball is officially over. It was a fun postseason. The Royals did not participate. Because they were bad. The 2022 season was a long one and a bad one. So bad that John Sherman hit the big red button and fired Dayton Moore after nearly 20 years at the helm before overseeing the firings of manager Mike Matheny and pitching coach Cal Eldred.
But it was a much more enjoyable bad season than 2018 and 2019 because nearly 50% of Kansas City’s position player fWAR came from rookies. Bobby Witt Jr. was a 2.3 fWAR player as a rookie, which might be underwhelming compared to a guy like Julio Rodriguez, but it is still a formidable rookie season.