Kansas City Royals: A horror movie for each season of the past decade

2017

Kansas City Royals: 80-82

Movie: 2012’s Prometheus

The tagline to Prometheus, which is a prequel to the four Alien movies, is great, and it also pretty much sums up the 2017 Royals: “They went looking for our beginning. What they found could be our end.”

By sticking with the Royals core instead of dealing them for future assets, Dayton Moore all but destroyed the Royals. He made the questionable decisions to hang on to Eric Hosmer, Lorenzo Cain, and Mike Moustakas, among others, going into 2017 in a clear effort to get back to the playoffs despite the team having taken a giant step backward in 2016.

The gamble didn’t pay off, as the Royals digressed again, and ended up getting very little for Hosmer and Cain when they signed elsewhere as free agents. Moustakas came back when his market cratered, and when the team eventually traded him, didn’t land anyone spectacular.

And just like Prometheus, a movie that had promised answers to questions arising out of the original Alien, the 2017 season left fans with more questions about the team’s future than they had entering the season.

Questions that, to this day, have yet to be answered–again, just like Prometheus.

(Quick note: Patrick Wilson is in this movie in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it flashback scene, making this the third and final movie of his that makes this list.)