The Royals’ Achilles heel in 2022 is their inability to score. As I write this, the Royals have scored 3.12 runs per game, the second-worst figure in the league. They do so via a toxic combination of an inability to reach base (they rank sixth-worst in on base percentage at .286) and a complete lack of power (an isolated power figure of .097, second-worst in baseball).
Now, such figures are unsustainably low over the course of a full season—even bad teams get hot sometimes, and the Royals have yet to hit their stride.