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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Breaks it down pretty well. A few things I'd add.

Good:
Mike Moustakas as a complete player. He's playing great defense at 3B and in his first full season, it poised to be the second-best all-around 3B in the American League (behind Beltre). I'd be thrilled if he ends this season at .270 with 30 HR, 40 2B and 94 RBI, his current pace.

Alex Gordon's recovery. As pointed out, even though he isn't hitting a ton of home runs, he's still slugging the ball well. He's on pace for 10 HR and 54 2B. I'd bet he ends up with something like 18 HR and 45 2B by the end of the year.

Kelvin Herrera has been everything we expected. Very good reliever.

Bad:

Hochevar's continued Jekyll-and-Hyde act.

Luck. The Royals are playing better than they did a season ago despite getting almost no offensive production from CF, RF and C (for 2/3 the season), a disappointing first half from Eric Hosmer, and elbow injuries to Paulino and Duffy. If you'd told me before the season that all those things would happen, I would have told you the Royals would have the worst record in baseball.

Bad is Frenchy being Frenchy and fooling us all and Sanchez a non factor, actually worse than having a scrub from AAA.