KC Royals News: The Final Score Is Irrelevant

There are quite a few fans who are worried after the KC Royals’ 2-5 start to Spring Training. The simple truth is, these games simply don’t matter.

Far too much stock is being put into the final result of these Spring Training games. While it’s easy to look at a final score and assume that the the Royals must’ve played poorly, the real story lies in the box scores at the end of the game.

Yes, the Royals are 2-5 to start this Spring Training, but the losses don’t paint the full picture. The starting pitchers don’t last more than a couple of innings and the starting position players are done by the fifth or sixth innings.

In the Royals five losses, the only loss that belongs to a Royals’ starter is Edinson Volquez. He gave up just one run in that loss. The other four losses belong to David Huff, Christian Binford, Peter Moylan, and Ross Ohlendorf. None of those pitchers are very likely to make the team, but that comes with every Spring Training.

The Royals have given up 33 earned runs this spring. Only five of those runs have been allowed by Royals’ pitchers who are sure to make the roster in some capacity. Pitchers like Joakim Soria and Wade Davis haven’t even pitched yet.

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Ned Yost Is NOT A Hall Of Fame Manager [Joel Wagler: KC Kingdom]

"The facts are these: Yost has managed only 12 seasons and has only five winning campaigns. Despite the successes of the last three years, he is still under .500 as a Royals manager (albeit just one game under), and 46 games under .500 overall.Even if the Royals pull off the improbable feat of appearing in three consecutive Fall Classics, and win their second straight, the Royals would need to go 104-58 for Yost to reach .500 as a big league manager."

Should Slow Spring Training Start Concern Royals Fans? [John Viril: Kings Of Kauffman]

Give Terrance Gore A Chance [David Hill: Kings Of Kauffman]

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The Royals had a very short off-season full of National Championship tours and not a lot of time to rest. Ned Yost made it clear that he was going to ease the team back into things slowly and that’s been very apparent so far this off-season.

The Royals have had a total of 223 at-bats in their seven games. The seven locked in starters total just 56 of those at-bats. That’s 78 percent of the opening day lineup accounting for just 25 percent of the at-bats. Alex Gordon and Salvador Perez lead the charge with ten at-bats a piece with is just 1.4 at-bats per game. Both Lorenzo Cain and Alcides Escobar have fewer at-bats than the Royals have games played.

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Need further proof that the win/loss category has little to no meaning in Spring Training? Take a look at some of the other records so far.

The Brewers, Rockies, and Reds all have four wins in the Cactus League and all of them are expected to be rebuilding teams. The team with the best odds of winning the World Series, the Chicago Cubs, are 1-5 this spring.

No one is ready to start putting the Brewers, Rockies, or Reds ahead of the Cubs at the end of the regular season. No one should be ready to write of the KC Royals due to a slow start in Spring Training either.

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