KC Royals: Five Lessons Learned After First Month

The KC Royals have now played 26 games on the season after their first full month of play. Let’s look at what has been learned in the early goings.

The Royals haven’t had the best start any team has ever had, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s still early and there is plenty of baseball left to be played. They also showed that those relentless and unyielding Royals are alive and well.

If the Royals had started off the way the Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves, or Houston Astros started, then there may be cause for concern. But as for now, the Royals don’t have a losing record and it’s too soon to write them off (didn’t we learn anything from those comeback wins?).

At least, baseball is fully underway and as we inch closer to the dog days of summer, the statistics and the records will start to even themselves out. Pitcher’s earned run averages will slowly start to rise, in some occasions. Others’, like Chris Young and Kris Medlen, will start to fall…hopefully.

May is a chance for everything to even itself out and that includes the seemingly endless slump the Royals have been in recently.

So what lessons have been learned so far on this very young season? Let’s take a look and see what the effects of the early plan have been.

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