The Royals and Tigers have been on a similar path over the last few years. The Tigers started their rebuild a bit before the Royals, but they’re building in similar ways. Both drafted a ton of pitching and both have started to graduate that pitching with both seeing mixed results. The bats came a bit later for both and both teams started the year with their top prospect at the big league level and both have struggled some. They also both have top level offensive prospects about ready for the big league level who haven’t yet debuted.
The difference, at this point, is that the Tigers have started the next step of picking up pieces to supplement what they’ve done.