93 games in. Not too many more wins.

The Royals have played 93 games. There isn't too many positive things to report on the team. They started out 10-4, remember that? Yeah, I don't remember that team either. They currently stand at 38-55. OK 28-51 in the last 79 games. The team isn't good. Hosmer has been almost as good as I expected. Moose isn't ready. The Royals were desperate and they brought him up. He is swimming up stream in the bigs. You can see Hos getting it, I don't see the same for Moose. He may catch on, it is very early. If he does become what it expected then the crazy amount of losses now will prove to be worth it. Billy frustrates me. He just can't produce runs. Hos has 1/3 more homers and 3 less RBI's than Billy. Do the math. Big and young and unproductive. Billy needs to produce or disappear. Hos, Moose, the outfield as a whole have been good. The cannons at the K are something to behold. All the assists are cool to watch. Frenchy has a big gun. They have played good D and contributed way more than I expected. I feel I should apologize to Melky and Frenchy. I thought they would be pedestrian at best. They have been good. Frenchy has slipped of late but he is still above water. So, you have good outfield play. Good D and better O from Escobar at short, and the team still sucks. The offense is slap and judy. They get hits but they don't score. Moose at third hasn't been the answer. Getz and whoever else hasn't been the answer at second. Treanor and Pena are trying but Matt is tired, you can see the age. Pena is trying but he just isn't that talented. Catcher, 3b,2b and a productive DH. That's all the offense needs. Maybe we can trade one of the farm boys for all that we need. I didn't buy the farm talk. You can see that it was just that, talk. Hos is the real deal. Moose isn't now, and may never be. Duffy is solid but he seems to be the only pitching "prospect" to even be close to the big leagues. Best farm system my butt. I'd assume the prospects are coming to KC, but nope, they are all at lower levels of the littles kicking tail. Great for them, not great for the big league team.
OK, enough about the offense and the lack of production from the greatest collection of farm hands ever. Lets talk pitching. Sorry it has to be done. Luke, awful. If there was another word that fit I'd use it. He strikes me as a complete mental midget. He folds from the stretch. I say this the night after he pitched well. I don't suspect he will pitch well again. Come on. Give him a 4 run lead and he will give up 6 the following inning. He and Billy are the same level of frustrating. Completely capable but just not producing. After Luke your pitching staff consists of 5 other starters. 6 starters, really? No Davies is complete trash. Francis, Chen, Paulino, and Duffy have been ok in spurts but they simply aren't that good. The Royals can't win 70 games the way the are put together. Mazzaro and OSullivan fizzled. Chen got hurt, but Come on, he is Chen. He is going to have a 4 era and he will battle. 4 runs is asking too much of our outfield to produce guys. Francis is up and down. He shows signs but he doesn't get support on the up nights. Duffy has a glimmer but he got sent down so garbage man Davies can get his starts. Kyle needs to be traded for a pair of cleats and some gum. The pen is overworked and underskilled. Crow gets to be an allstar then he blows a game with a balk. He hasn't pitched well since he found out people were watching, I guess. Wood, Coleman, Holland all have electric stuff. They just seem to be lacking the killer instinct. Soria seems to have gotten it back. I hope so. Teaford and Collins are somewhat solid. Two lefties need to keep it that way. Pitching sucks too bad for this team to win too many close, low scoring games. Offense is missing too many productive spots. 4 empty spots in the line up and poor starting pitching leads to, oh I don't know maybe a 28-51 record over 79 games. Spread that out over 162 and you don't get to 70 wins. Hey, maybe they can draft Bubba Starling again next year!
Another bad Royals season. Hey there is good news the NFL will get the CBA done. Yes, Go Steelers! They have issues.They have problems. I guarantee you they won't embarass themselves as an organization like the Royals do. Best farm system ever? Whatever. Go Royals, I still love them. Go Steelers! That is so much easier to cheer for.