Before last night’s game, the Royals were 19-13, second in the surprisingly competitive AL Central, fourth in the AL for overall record, and best in the sport at +50 run differential. By all of those measures, and many others besides, this is a very good team that seems primed to compete for a post-season birth all year long.
We talked a bit last week about how the starting rotation might be benefitting from some good luck, but whether lucky or not it’s impossible to deny that, up until now, the results of the team’s pitching have been very good.