Through no fault of their own, Kansas City Royals fans have very little experience with how good baseball teams are supposed to look and supposed to be run because the Royals have failed to display anything resembling competitive baseball for most of the last three and a half decades. This exhibits itself in a lot of ways, but it mainly puts Royals baseball on a weird and depressing grading curve where “bad” is the norm and people don’t get bent out of shape unless they tumble down the hill into “awful.” Even then, the Royals can be awful for a long time until enough people get restless enough for it to matter.
The success of the rebuild depends on John Sherman’s standards
