What makes the 2022 Kansas City Royals team so frustrating is not that they are losing at an incredible pace. The Royals lost at an incredible pace in both 2018 and 2019 and I don’t think anyone was super unhappy about it—if you take any team and remove half a dozen of their best players, they’re not gonna do well. It was the price they paid to go for it in 2017 and 2018.
No, what makes the 2022 Royals so frustrating is that they could be very fun and, most likely, better right this very second.