Royals RBI men

Back in 1999, Jermaine Dye, Carlos Beltran, and Mike Sweeney accomplished something that no other trio of Kansas City Royal teammates had done in the franchise’s history: they each collected at least 100 runs batted in (RBIs) in the same season, Dye leading the way with 119 followed by Beltran’s 108 and Sweeney’s 102.

Before then, there’d only been two years in which even two Royals reached the 100-RBI mark in the same season: 1979 (Darrell Porter with 112 and George Brett with 107) and 1988 (Brett with 103 and Danny Tartabull with 102).

Since 1999, three Royals have driven in 100 RBIs or more in the same season just once—the very next year, in 2000, when Sweeney led the way with a…