The Kansas City Royals have been in search of offensive firepower for virtually the entire season. It is not hyperbole to say the Royals were offensively challenged in 2025. They ranked towards the bottom of a majority of meaningful offensive categories for seemingly most of the season.
If not for a god-awful month of June, where the Royals went 9-18 and averaged a league-worst 3.3 runs per game, we could have been looking at a team heading to the postseason. That is out of the question now, and the Guardians are now living a reality that could have belonged to the Royals.