When should we expect him up?

Who knows. He's been sooo bad.

Hahahaha, holy cow... this announcer... Is this spaz for real? Sounds like a mediocre Jimmy Fallon obnoxious radio jock sketch. AND WE'RE BAAAAAAAACK!!!!

We get it, we get it... But we know what the Royals will do. They're gonna send Loftin down to Omaha, promote Massey, and as long as Massey plays well, or well enough, in about a month when either Hampson, Frazier or both are barely slugging their weight, the Royals will quietly admit defeat and DFA one of those jokers around Memorial Day. Then Loftin rejoins the team.

In about 20 minutes, our own beloved KC Royals will be standing atop the standings in the Central Division. Hallelujah! It's only the second week of April, but I'll take it!

Honestly at this point it's probably okay because I'd rather Loftin get ABs every day than sit on the bench behind Massey.

First place with the best run differential in baseball

I would bet you and ungodly amt of money that we don't win 90 games. Just an absurd amt of money.

Agreed.

sorry but Massey has back issues and hasnt done jack squat in the bigs
I love him too but lets be honest here...we needed big league insurance in the infield

Anybody know what the biggest jump in win totals from one year to the next might be?

If the Royals went from 56 to 90 wins in a single year, I've gotta think that would be at least in the top 5. Not impossible, but a LOT of history working against this from happening.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> are all alone in first place after the first week of the season for the first time since May 3, 2021.</p>&mdash; David Lesky (@DBLesky) <a href="https://twitter.com/DBLesky/status/1779308685652582663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Tried looking that up, as far as I can tell no one has ever lost 100 one year and won 90 the next. A few teams have won 80+ games. The 2017 Twins are the only team to lose 100 and make the playoffs the next year. But now 6 teams make the playoffs so it's a little easier.

Biggest jump I'm able to find is the Atlanta Braves from 90 to 91. 29 game jump in wins from 65 to 94 wins and a World Series appearance in one year.