The success of the 2013-2017 Kansas City Royals kind of obscured something. That thing was that the Royals had been a complete and utter dumpster fire for literally decades. Decades.
Frankly, it was so bad that part of me is shocked that A) Kansas City still has a professional baseball team and B) Kansas City had any baseball fans at all. Will McDonald, the founder of Royals Review, started this enterprise during those awful years. He is to be remembered for his courage and tenacity. Amen.
But even the terrible teams had good players. The Royals had some good players between the years of 1995 and 2012.