The five worst outfields in Royals history

The Kansas City Royals outfield has been a problem dating back to the start of last year. With young players failing to make developmental leaps and wily veterans fading faster than we had all hoped, there have been multiple reasons why the Royals have struggled to find productive players to patrol the Kauffman Stadium grass.

Has Kansas City’s outfield this year been as bad as it has seemed? Or is there some historical outfield offering a sort of salve to our woes that whispers in our ear, “Hey, it could be worse?” Let’s take a look.

We need some sort of north star of objectivity here, and so I am using my favorite offensive statistic: wRC+, which stands for weighted runs created plus. For…