It’s the time of year when baseball teams outside the playoff race start to play the “What if?” game. The Kansas City Royals are firmly in that position as they enter the week five games behind the Twins with just 13 games to go.
Usually, Monday’s are reserved for our postseason picture updates. But the mountain the Royals need to climb seems too steep to personally justify churning out 3,000 words. Instead, we will put out our second “What if?” piece of the past few weeks.
In the first one, it was examined what might have been if Whit Merrifield had been with the Kansas City Royals the entire season instead of starting off in the minor leagues.