2007 Kansas City Royals Predictions

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The Royals improved six wins from 2005 to 2006, however, that improvement only translates into a 62-100 record. More improvement figures to be on the way, but it will come at a snail’s pace.

The 2005 Kansas City Royals were the definition of a bottom feeder if there ever was one. It was the same story in 2006 and why not come out with the trilogy in 2007. They’ll be looking to improve on last season’s dismal record but they may be looking all season. I do expect Kansas City to improve on last year’s record, but I don’t foresee anything drastic. Even if they could manage a surprise winning season as they in 2003 they would still likely finish fourth in the difficult American League Central. The Royals have dropped 100 or more games 4 of the last 5 years and their young guns aren’t maturing at a fast enough to pace to make major gains this season, which has gotten even tougher with the emergence of Detroit. The Royals tried the old trick of bringing in veterans to mix with the youngsters, but most experts have these guys slated as all washed up.

As if we haven’t already ragged on Kansas City enough, it only gets worse when we look at their pitching staff. The Royals’ starting pitching has been dreadful and it will continue to be so in 2007. Only, Mark Redman threw for more that 162 innings last season and he was the only pitcher with more than 10 wins(he had 11). So what do the Royals do? They ship their best pitcher off to the Braves. The Royals are looking for big things out of Gil Meche, who they paid a premium for. It’s hard to pitch on bad teams. Low double digit wins out of him is really the best K.C. should hope for. I’m not going to go into too much detail with a staff that is still hurting badly. They’ll be better than last season and I think this team can reach the 70 win mark. That will still be good for last place in the AL Central.

The Royals are better at the plate in comparison to their pitching. Good ole Mike Sweeney has been the best stick on the Royals year after year, but year after year he can’t stay healthy and he would be the third best hitter on many teams throughout the league. The Royals will hope the ageless Reggie Sanders doesn’t get old on them this season. I can’t see him putting up big enough numbers to make much of a difference this season. The rest of the guys on the squad probably aren’t even worth mentioning so I won’t. I doubt you would recognize their names anyway, and I don’t expect any of the unnamed to produce enough to make a name for themselves by the season’s end. Last season, none of these guys hit more than 20 homeruns or had over 100 RBI’s.

With all that said, Royals backers were still a profitable group last season. Last season, the Royals were 62-100, but their backers were +1123. Because the Royals are so bad, they are always undervalued. Picking your spots on the Royals can produce some great pay day’s over the course of a season.

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