Friday’s game against the Minnesota Twins represented the quarter point mark for the Royals in 2020. Twenty-five percent of the season gone is a fine place to take stock of what we’ve seen thus far. In a normal year, we would be discussing what we witnessed over the previous 40 games—that’s the number Dayton Moore likes to see before he makes any kind of judgement of that season’s team. In the year of Covid, the number of games played at the quarter point is 15.
But! Given the beating the Royals administered to the Twins over the weekend and their first extended winning streak of 2020, let’s expand the sample size to 17 games.