After five years of close-encounters with the dreaded 3 digits in the antagonist column, the hard fought battle may be headed back to an old bitter tasting result in 2012. Measuring the outlook of the rest of the A.L. central is fairly difficult to comprehend right now, but if there was any sure bet I’d take in the division, it would be the over on 90 losses for K.C.
Kansas City fans, having more fun watching their football team give Aaron Rodgers his own “discount double-check” this season, probably have little concern for the team’s interaction this off-season. Why should they? With the exception of receiving Jonathan Sanchez and Ryan Verdugo in a trade with the Giants, The Royals have spent most of their time this off-season resigning young homegrown talent in the farm system, which regrettable for Royals fans, won’t have much impact on the 2012 season.
In order for Royals fans to be entertained in 2012, the franchise will have to answer to an overabundance of questions on player performance and team positioning. I don’t want to delve into them hear because there are way too many, and mainly because 90% are completely irrelevant to the team’s extremely minimal chance of landing the divisional crown. To put it into a general non-boring perspective, it seems the Royals will be relying on a lot of “well if this happens or if this player…” in 2012, which screams horrifying inconsistency for Royals fans.
On the bright side of the thrown, the Royals hitting numbers last season were actually commendable, however in order to maintain those numbers they have challenging task of filling the void which Melky “thanks for nothing” Cabrera left behind. With a stand-still in run production, and the pitching adds from the off-season, the Royals improve their 5% chance of winning the division to 10%. Until I see some consistent quality starts, I’m not sold on their N.L. central “sleeper” prediction for 2012. However, if they post a year with less than 90 losses, I may look at them to sneakily slip their cheese on the A.L. central whopper in 2013 or 2014.
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