You can't erase the dominance from the 70's-80's like that. The 77 and 80 teams were likely better than the 85 team (at least that was my Mom's argument).

1989 team was 3rd best in all of baseball had the misfortune of being in the same division as the Oakland A's and baseball only division winner went to the playoffs then.

It is kind of wild even with all the bad years, most teams have not had the World Series wins and appearances the Royals have had since expansion. Philly and Cleveland have been around since the 1800s and they have 2 World Series wins. Tigers have 1 WS and 3 appearances since the Royals came into the league. Twins have only made it twice in about 60 years but they did win both times.

Would have to dig up the list but the Royals have one of the best playoff winning percentages ever, and more playoff wins than teams like the White Sox and Twins who are 100 year old teams. You could blow people's minds with Royals playoff trivia.

In not so great news, the guys drafted around Blake Mitchell are severely outperforming him.

a well deserved day off

I was looking up some stats. If Witt gets 30HR and 50SBs........there are only two MLBers who have ever done that:

Barry bonds
Eric Davis

(and they both only did it one season)

Eric Davis. One of my favorite could-have-beens. What a player he was. Body just couldn't hold up.

Only to be ever shadowed by the fact acuna is 1 hr away from doing the same

Indians scooped up all the Angels pitchers

In grade school he was my adopt-a-player on the playground. Each of our friends pretended to be a MLB star when we played pickup games. I was Eric. Loved him.

If he gets 30 hr 50 RBIs 30 2Bs and 10 3Bs, then he will be the first to ever do that.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources: The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> plan on calling up Nick Loftin tomorrow as rosters expand. He’s their No. 5 prospect per <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBPipeline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MLBPipeline</a>: <a href="https://t.co/FeVQjYf36J">https://t.co/FeVQjYf36J</a></p>&mdash; Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) <a href="https://twitter.com/anne__rogers/status/1697358107267973387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Where do yall think Loftin plays if he sticks?

I could see him super-subbing.

Some 3B and 2B time. Some LF time. I’ve no idea what his D in the OF looks like or if it’s good enough to handle CF at the K.

He will be not as good as Zobrist but not as bad as Nicky Lopez. But same type. Play everywhere.