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Originally Posted by raybec 4
If they can't establish themselves as at least a competitive team in their own division, no free agents will want to play here next year. They're setting themselves up to be the 90's Royals
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Woah. Slow down now.
The late 90s/early 2000's Royals put together quite possibly the worst 16-year stretch of baseball ever.
From 1997 to 2012 they lost an
average of 94 games. ON AVERAGE!
There were 5 teams in all of MLB that lost more than 94 games this year and that was their average season over 16 years. That's astonishingly awful. And they lost in such hapless fashion more often than not.
No, they're not approaching that territory. But they're looking to be a lot like the Baltimore Orioles in/around that same period of time - just absolutely completely forgettable. Never very good, never very bad. Maybe a playoff run here and there and maybe a 95 loss season here and there. But mostly just wildly irrelevant and banking on history to keep the fans interested.