Over the last several weeks, much has been made of the Royals team speed going into 2018. Coming off of a 104-loss season, Royals fans can at least look forward to watching the Royals wreak havoc on the base paths again. Heck, even the national media is excited to watch it. Jonah Keri of CBS listed the Royals as one of the 10 reasons to be excited for the 2019 season, saying that the Royals “terrorized opposing pitchers on the base paths [in 2018],” and that the Royals “are going to be bad again this year...so why not get even faster?