Not here at RR, of course, but around the sports media landscape, those writing about the Royals have mostly thrown in the towel for the season
That’s not entirely fair as Clint Scoles had an entertaining article looking at parallels between the 2008 and 2018 Low-A champions.
Despite the usual rhetoric, the Royals minor league squads started winning almost immediately, taking championships at multiple levels along the way to a 2015 World Series title. The first championship came at the Low-A level in 2008 at the Midwest League after the Burlington Bees rode a second-half division title into the playoffs and through a perfect playoff run.