Royals announce playoff rotation

The Royals have announced their starting rotation for the Wild Card Game. It will not surprise many.

#Royals Wild Card Series rotation:

Game 1: Cole Ragans

Game 2: Seth Lugo

Game 3 (if necessary): Michael Wacha

— Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) September 29, 2024 Cole Ragans was the Royals’ Opening Day starter and his performance throughout the season, including in his final regular season start where he went six scoreless innings against the Washington Nationals to end a seven-game skid and kick off that series sweep has only confirmed that was the absolute right decision.

Ragans finishes the year 11-9 with a 3.14 ERA. He struck out a club-record-for-a-lefty 223 batters in only 186.1 innings. He was…