(Music Pun #6. Bet you thought I'd wait til i made another Christian Yelich custom to make another Lorde pun.)
Talking about this Royals team is difficult, seeing as the lineup is one of the most pathetic ones I've seen in recent history (Moose notwithstanding)...and yet the pitching is all doing fairly well.
It helps that Jakob Junis is coming to his own as a starter, and that Ian Kennedy is having a comeback season. Yes, Jason Hammel and Danny Duffy aren't 100% flawless, but they're doing better than they were last season. The bullpen isn't bad either, with Kelvin Herrera finally figuring out how to close games again, which is nice. With this pitching staff, the Royals could have been in good shape.
But...nobody on the lineup other than Mike Moustakas or Whit Merrifield is hitting. Nobody. Not Lucas Duda, not Alcides Escobar, not Paulo Orlando, not Cheslor Cuthbert. Any other potential sources of power, like Salvador Perez or Alex Gordon, are recovering from injuries. And yes, there are people like Jorge Soler and Jon Jay (ha, ex-Cubs) who are TRYING to get their averages back up, but it's not enough. The Royals have won 4 games thus far, on the strength of pitching alone. And it's gonna take a ton more than that to get them through the season.
It's just sad to look at. It could very well get better, but...it's just not looking good right now.
Coming Tonight: Speaking of Cubs, an infielder who's trying his damnedest to get the team back to where they were.
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