Let’s be clear here: the 2020 Royals team will be bad. Very bad. Most pundits and projection systems predict somewhere between 65 and 70 wins next year. This, even though the Royals have a collection of starting pitching talent and a few intriguing position players that are poised to make their debuts.
That’s because the 2019 Royals were truly awful, having only won 59 games, and this year’s team is virtually identical. The main reason why the Royals were, and will be, so bad is because of a lack of depth. They’ve got a core group of nice position players—Jorge Soler, Hunter Dozier, Whit Merrifield, and Adalberto Mondesi combined for 11.