In the young 2022 season, the Kansas City Royals have struggled to score runs. You don’t have to look hard to find out why: the team as a whole has the third-worst OPS (on base plus slugging percentage) in baseball. They also have the second-worst walk rate in baseball and the second-worst ISO (isolated slugging percentage) in baseball.
This is—how do you put it—bad, it’s bad. Of course, we’re eight games into the year. A lot of weird things can happen in a short stretch of games. For instance, the 2005 Royals team was the worst squad in franchise history en route to a whopping 106 losses, and they went 7-2 over a nine-game stretch in June.