The Royals need to value playing time more

Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesThe 2023 season has not gone the way Royals fans would like, but the poor start is probably not too surprising for a team that lost 97 games last year and shed some of their best players without adding much this off-season. This was not expected to be a contending year for the young Royals, but rather a year to audition who would part of the future. As owner John Sherman recently put it, “it is a year of evaluation,” adding “we’re going to find out what are the pieces that we need to add as well. I think that’s important. It’s important for our fans to know.”

But despite getting younger with the lineup, the Royals are wasting far too much of their playing…