2007 Kansas City Royals Picks & Predictions
May 27, 2008
The Royals are widely known as the worst team in baseball. Improvement came in 2006, but it looked more like a tortoise than a hare as K.C. gained only six more victories from 2005 to make it over the 60-win mark for the season.
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It can’t get any worse for the Royals so I think we can feel safe about picking them to improve again in 2007, but it will most assuredly not be a drastic turnaround as the Royals would like.
If you looked up Kansas City Royals in the dictionary, my guess is, it would say “last place.” That was the case in 2005 and 2006 and it will be again in 2007. Even if the Royals were somehow able to put together a surprise winning season the way they did in 2003, it would likely still only be good enough for fourth place in a division whose third place team won 90 games last season. K.C. has lost 100 or more games four of the last five seasons proving that it’s the teams spending big bucks that are making the turnarounds and not the ones trying to build from within. The Vets the Royals have brought in are already washed up.
I apologize if I’m depressing you Royals backers, but the foundation of every good team is a solid starting rotation and Kansas City’s will rival Washington’s for the worst in baseball. Mark Redman was the only Royals pitcher to make it over the 162 inning mark last season which tells us that most of these guys were getting knocked out early. The Royals may have really dug themselves a hole by dealing Redman to the Braves and banking on Gil Meche who they over paid for. It doesn’t matter how good you are, it’s hard to pitch on bad teams. Last place in the Central will be the reality again with a team full of unproven guys.
The Royals are better at the plate in comparison to their pitching (not by much). Good ole Mike Sweeney has been K.C.’s old faitful, old might be the better word now as he can’t stay healthy. The rest of the guys on the squad, other than Alex Gordon, probably aren’t even worth mentioning so I won’t. He has the potential to be their franchise guy. Last season, none of these guys hit more than 20 homeruns or had over 100 RBI’s. Hopefully, one of these unnamed guys can make it over one of these relatively easy plateaus by today’s standards.
If you are a Royals fan, I hope you are a gambler. Last season, the Royals were 62-100, but their backers were +1123. Because the Royals are so bad, they are always undervalued. You will always see great value when backing the Royals and in the long run, this team will be a profitable one again in 2007.
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