Shortstop has been a pain point for the Royals since the beginning of the organization. When Freddie Patek has your only run of more than three seasons over 2 WAR in over half a century, you can tell just how rough filling the position has been for this organization. That dearth of talent may finally be coming to an end, so I wanted to reflect on the few decent seasons that have happened.
For all of these performances I just averaged fWAR and bWAR to find the five best individual seasons. No individual player had more than one, which in itself is unusual, so we will see five of the best this franchise has had to offer, if only temporarily.