Last year, the Kansas City Royals played an absurd number of good teams, comparatively, through the first three quarters of the short season. It was a quirk of scheduling, combined with only playing teams from the AL and NL Central divisions. This year, we’ve seen the Royals play more teams with losing records, and they’ve done well. They are 10-4 over their last 14 games, most of which have come against mediocre or bad teams. And that’s fine! You want to beat up against the bad teams!
The Detroit Tigers are one of those bad teams, because they cannot hit, and most of their top prospects are still in the minor leagues.