The Kansas City Royals, in their own weird way, might be baseball’s ultimate small market team.
Free agency signings are a rarity. Player development and small budgets are king. If that’s enough to clinch a playoff berth in the oh-so-soft-and-Midwestern AL Central, wonderful! Casseroles and keggers for everybody! Royals ownership must have celebrated accordingly last year, even though they lost in the ALDS to the eventual American League champion Yankees.
This season, the Royals could be ready to take that next step towards winning the Central outright. They ranked 10th in baseball last year with a .