During the prolonged offseason, we pondered a lot of things and reminisced about our favorite Royals, leading to this series, where we voted on our favorite Royals that aren’t among the team’s all-time greats, either because of longevity or because they, well, just weren’t all that great.
We started off with more than seventy names and got down to 16 when the two-month season rudely interrupted. I got too busy to write for a couple of weeks, and then there was only three weeks or so left in the season, so I just decided to wait.
To refresh everyone’s memory, this is the final sixteen, with the “elite eight” down to these players:
Bob Hamelin, Ben Zobrist, John Wathan, Jeremy Guthrie, Tom Gordon, Bill Pecota, Steve Balboni, and Jim Eisenreich.