Incredibly bad bullpens

No lead is safe. If you are a Royals fan that is still watching games, or at least tracking the score on your phone each night, that statement feels very real right now. On Tuesday, when the Royals took a 9-0 lead, we saw them prove it. Yes, KC won the game, but it sure didn’t feel like it. When you have a bullpen that has no trustworthy arms, it just makes every lead a shaky construct.

To be fair, the 2023 Royals bullpen has no chance of going down in history as one of the worst of all time. However, that might only be because it wasn’t a terrible pen before the trade deadline. After the deadline, it has been impressively bad. Since August 2nd, the bullpen has accumulated -1.3 fWAR, good…