Lesky’s Notes: At least June is over?

Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports The Royals talking about this season as a year they could compete always seemed far-fetched to me when it started. But then they went out and started 16-9 and you could start to wonder if they could piece their way to staying afloat until Adalberto Mondesi could come back and the young pitching prospects could find their way to the big leagues. Of course, we’ve seen how that went. Mondesi has played 10 games, Daniel Lynch and Jackson Kowar are toiling in AAA again and the team has hit rock bottom with no proof that this actually is the bottom. People can blame some injuries, and they’d be right. But teams have to fight through injuries. The real issue is that there simply wasn’t the depth to cover them and to cover the players who simply have no business playing regularly but the Royals don’t have a better option. And so, here we are, watching a team in a familiar place while the other team in the division, the Tigers, in the midst of their rebuild, seem to be taking some steps right now. It’s disappointing and disheartening.

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