David Lesky does a deep dive into what’s wrong with the offense.
Before the slump, the Royals hit .258 with a .425 SLG, a 40.3 percent hard-hit rate a 7.7 percent rate of barrels per batted ball event. Since, they’ve hit .211 with a .372 SLG, but that goes with a 43.4 percent hard-hit rate and 7.1% barrels/bbe. Does that mean it’s all bad luck? No, though it is some bad luck. The xBA recently is .233 and the xSLG is .372. What I left out was whiffs and strikeouts. They came up empty on 22.