*** Official 2018-2019 Royals Offseason Repository ***

[Chris Meck]

Originally Posted by tk13

As optimistic as I like to be, if the bullpen is still terrible this might still be a last place team. We'll see if guys like Lovelady can actually come up and give us a shot of life. There will probably be games where the offense looks rough and other games where they light it up with their team speed and a little bit of pop. At their best we might actually be a pretty fun offense to watch compared to the rest of the league.

The catch is who knows if anyone in our division will actually be any good. The White Sox could still make a move or two, including Machado. The Twins just continue to add mid range free agents, although they did get Nelson Cruz. It's the same question as last year for them though, is that all going to come together and actually work. The Indians are the front runners by default but they're not nearly the same team either. If any of the other teams could just play above their head for a bit you're probably a 2nd place team at least.

I felt like last year the Omaha team had a couple or 3 guys that would've been upgrades to the KC club; but no reason to burn a season's eligibility on a lost year.

But-I expect the pen to be better; and it's one of the spots a small market team can reasonably spend and get improvement.

I think it could be a 75ish win club pretty easily. With a little luck right around .500