On March 28, the Royals Review staff published our 2018 season predictions. We tackled who we thought would win MVP, Cy Young, the World Series—all that good stuff.
Of course, the most important prediction we made was how many wins the 2018 Kansas City Royals would accrue. None of our 10 staff members predicted the Royals to win more than 80 games because it was pretty clear why the Royals wouldn’t be as good as they were last year. Our staff average prediction was a shade over 73 wins.
Winning 73 games is certainly not good; in a normal year with a standard distribution of talent among the league’s teams, that places you firmly as the fourth or fifth-best team in your division (worst or next-to-worst, if you want to focus on the negative).