The Royals are bad. Unfortunately, they aren’t bad enough, because despite how bad they’ve been, the Orioles have been more bad. Right now the Orioles hold the #1 draft pick for 2019 and they also hold the tiebreaker should they finish even with the Royals. Dan Szymborski (now) at FanGraphs tried getting both teams to 120 losses recently. That seems both possible and implausible. That order of magnitude of being lousy is tough to do. Teams are going to win ~54 games and lose ~54 games, it’s what they do with the other ~54 games that matters, and it looks like the Royals and Orioles are going to lose a lot of that middle section.
2018 is the year of bad, expensive teams
