For a team like the Royals, the ways a season can go wrong seem to heavily outweigh the ways it can go right. Perhaps that’s the case for all 30 teams in Major League Baseball, but it seems more obvious for a club with just a .398 winning percentage over the last five seasons combined. As bad as the performance has been on the field, the simplest way that 2023 could go wrong for these Royals is to simply be how it has been.
It’s easier to look at how things could go south because historically, they do so much more often in Kansas City.