The 2018 Kansas City Royals season almost immediately took a turn for the worse and then fell into a sinkhole, but it’s taken until June for the true awfulness of this team to truly solidify. Yes, a team can have a terrible month, but after a terrible April, May, and now June, it is abundantly clear: this team suuuuuuuuuuuucks. Kansas City is on pace for the worst season in its 50-year history by an additional eight entire losses. That’s a 48-114 record, by the way. Ick.
This has many consequences, of course, but one of the biggest ones is that, after 74 games of truly abysmal baseball, the first selection in the 2019 Major League Baseball amateur draft is realistically in play for the Royals.