Kansas City Royals: Ranking every season from 2010s
The 2010s were pretty good to the Kansas City Royals, as they won their first World Series in 30 years while also appearing in another championship game.
With the 2010s over for the Kansas City Royals, let’s take a look back and rank every season from 2010-2019 for the boys in blue. I’m sure you’ll be shocked at the top two entries (that was sarcasm – the rest of the list is a little tougher to predict though)!
Let’s get right into it, shall we? We’ll start with the worst season of the decade and work our way up to the best of the decade.
RANKING EVERY ROYALS SEASON FROM 2010-2019
NUMBER 10: 2018
- Record: 58-104
In the franchise’s 50th season, the Kansas City Royals sure didn’t give their fan base much to cheer about. This was the first year without the star players that the fans had come to know and love and it was really hard to get excited about players such as Burch Smith or Abraham Almonte, but that’s what the Royals provided us with in 2018.
The 2018 season was honestly supposed to be about giving the young prospects a chance to prove themselves, but instead it turned out to be letting older washed-up players get one last chance at glory. This went on for far too long.
While fans didn’t necessarily have high expectations after their key free agents left, no one expected the Royals to lose 100 games for the first time since 2006. The Royals finished with the second-worst record in Major League Baseball and wound up taking Bobby Witt Jr. with the second overall pick.
Whit Merrifield was the star of the 2018 team, slashing .304/.367/.438 while hitting 12 home runs, 60 RBI, and stealing 45 bases while Brad Keller was the gem of the pitching staff. Keller, a Rule-5 draft player, started the year in the bullpen but was eventually promoted to the rotation. He finished the year with a 3.08 ERA and 1.30 WHIP through 140.1 innings.
The Royals had several bad seasons in the 2010s, but at least some of them had exciting moments. 2018 didn’t provide fans with much and that’s why it was the worst season of the decade.