Quiz time! First (and only) question: why did the Kansas City Royals never make it back to the playoffs with their core after winning the 2015 World Series?
There are a lot of semi-correct answers on this one. I’ll take “poor free agent spending,” “bad trades,” and “injury luck” for partial credit. But there’s only one true answer, which is that the vaunted Royals farm system hadn’t produced any talent in years by the time the Royals won it all, and that is what doomed them not to return.
See, it takes time for players to get drafted and make their way through to being impact players.