Weekend Rumblings - News for July 14, 2018
Sam Mellinger lists the ten reasons how the Royals got to be this bad.
2. The drafts and international signings haven’t been good enough.
The Royals have internal metrics that rate their draft classes relatively well, and they absolutely have success stories that for various reasons are easy to overlook — Ventura, Manaea, Whit Merrifield, Ruiz, Adalberto Mondesi, Alexander, Bonifacio, etc.
But look at division rivals. The Indians’ homegrown stars include Francisco Lindor, Jose Ramirez, Jason Kipnis and Lonnie Chisenhall.