Kansas City Royals: Official all-time team flooded with new age Royals

If there’s one thing we know Kansas City Royals fans are good at, it’s voting. That was put to good use, as fans voted on the “All-Time Royals Team” to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the franchise.

Anytime people are asked to vote, recency bias usually plays itself out. People have short-term memories, especially when it comes to sports, and the Kansas City Royals‘ All-Time Team that fans voted on proved that sentiment. It’s definitely a “what have you done for me lately” type of situation when it comes to voting in sports.

With Opening Day on Thursday, the Royals finished announcing their top 50 and no one was surprised that George Brett was number one. I doubt they even had him listed and just automatically slotted him in there. He deserves to be the top ranked player in Royals history, so no arguments from me there.

After Brett, however, the list definitely gets young. In fact, four of the next nine players were within this recent wave of Royals success. I’m not knocking those players at all, but some of them might not have been worthy of a top ten spot on this list.

Here was the top ten:

The most notable thing is that Bo Jackson should NOT be in the top ten. Was Jackson a great athlete? Yes, absolutely! That wall catch he had during his days in Kansas City was INSANE and Jackson provided a lot of great highlight reels for the franchise.

With that said, however, Jackson does not deserve to be the eighth greatest player on this list. He spent just five years in Kansas City and had a batting average of .250 after his Royals days were over.