By and large, the 2024 Kansas City Royals season has been a surprisingly pleasant one. They’re a legitimately good team with playoff aspirations. Now, those aspirations are pretty low; this is a “it would be a huge to simply squeak into the dance with the third Wild Card spot” situation, not a “we expect to win the division” situation. But considering the team won 56 games last year? That’s great!
Fortunately or unfortunately—whatever your perspective on this may be—the fun of this season has been a flash bang grenade of sorts and has distracted pretty much everyone from the organizational health as a whole, which is better than it was but still rather mediocre.