The 2023 Kansas City Royals have clinched their spot as the worst team in franchise history, equaling the ignominious 2005 squad in on-field ineptitude. That 2005 squad, as did this year’s squad, lost 106 games in a season—a feat we had hoped never to see again. Well, folks, never say never, because that time is now.
This got me, and the Royals Review staff, to thinking: how do we commemorate this, er, achievement? I initially floated the idea of ranking the 106 worst losses of the Dayton Moore and JJ Picollo eras as a joke. Haha, funny!
But, I then thought, hey, that’s a decent idea for a piece.