One of the age-old arguments in pro sports revolves around what comes first. Confidence? Or success?
Do you have to have confidence to be successful? Or do you have to be successful to be confident?
The correct answer to both questions is, yes.
The Kansas City Royals are a perfect example of how those two concepts move in lockstep. With essentially the same team they have now, after an absence from the playoffs of 28 years, the Royals barely scraped into the playoffs as a wild card entrant in 2014, then ran the table. In the end, they came within one base hit of winning the World Series in a seventh game against the San Francisco Giants.