Crazy but true. If the #Royals won just *A THIRD* of the games that they lost in the 8th inning or later this year, they’d currently own a playoff spot. If they just held on to all their 9th inning leads, they’d have a playoff spot. A bad bullpen made that big of a difference.
@Royals another humiliating day at the ballpark for this joke of a team. Just when you think they couldn’t be more embarrassing, they find a way. This team would be a loser if they were a AAA team, let alone a major league team.
Royals relievers have 21 blown saves. Only two teams (Tigers, Nationals) have more.
They have allowed 64 home runs. Only two teams (A's, Nationals) have allowed more.
They have a 5.31 ERA. Only the A's are worse.
For the 4th time this year, the #Royals have lost a game in which they were just 1 out away from winning. 3 times coming with 2 strikes, 2 outs.
Kansas City has 9 blown leads in the 9th inning or later. 20 losses have come in the 8th inning or later.
There is a reasonable case to be made that the 1999 Royals had the worst bullpen of all time. (The Royals that year had a winning record after six innings...and finished 64-97.) I certainly never thought I'd see a Royals team with a worse bullpen.
But this one is close.
If Salvy didn’t have to play home games at Kauffman and didn’t have to live through a global pandemic, he would already have over 400 homers, the only primary catcher besides literally Mike Piazza to top that awe-inspiring mark.