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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
Found it - Royalsreview stated we would be first since 1915 As to lose 109 theee seasons after winning it all. Kinda lame criteria there. Suffice it to say, few teams have 100 losses so soon. That's undeniable, how bad we crashed.
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The WS team capitalized on incredible seasons from Chris Young and Ed Volquez. Duffy and Hochevar were also effective bullpen pieces that kind of showed up out of nowhere. Madsen was also a gift. They had just enough luck to get by with a sturdy set of starters and got even BETTER long relief bullpen pieces.
It's lucky when you hit those pieces at the right time, but so many of them were short timers or guys who would crash back to reality. Throw in the fact that we had to get rid of the meat of our starters, and that's why this crash took place.
The only way to prevent it was to go through the sell-off much sooner and more aggressively. That's what some of us wanted but the Royals chose differently. Oh well. Too bad.
Who cares if our bottoming out was 90 losses or 110 losses? It was going to happen. Bitching about the degree of the bottom out is kind of... well... stupid