There’s plenty of room for growth in the Crossroads this baseball season, despite the Kansas City Royals’ ability to snap the club’s postseason drought last fall.
Utilizing BaseballReference.com, BetMissouri.com found the statistics for how AL Central teams to start the season, including games in March & April over the last three seasons.
Best AL Central Clubs In March & April
Rank | Team | Record | Runs Scored | Runs Allowed |
1 | Minnesota Twins | 45-34 | 352 runs | 299 runs |
2 | Cleveland Guardians | 41-37 | 354 runs | 323 runs |
3 | Detroit Tigers | 34-43 | 275 runs | 332 runs |
4 | Kansas City Royals | 32-47 | 297 runs | 348 runs |
5 | Chicago White Sox | 22-57 | 266 runs | 433 runs |
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Royals Typically Off To Slow Start
Since 2022, the Royals’ 32-47 (.405) record during the first two calendar months of the MLB regular season ranks as the second worst in the five-team AL Central, ahead of the lowly Chicago White Sox, who have gone 22-57 (.278) during the same period.
It doesn’t help matters that Kansas City’s overall winning percentage between 2022 and 2024 was .426, speaking to the mediocrity that plagued the Royals as a whole in the aftermath of the team’s 2015 World Series run all the way through last year’s surprise trip to the ALDS.
Much of that bad news stopped once homegrown talent like infielder Bobby Witt Jr. reached The Show, however, with the fourth-year shortstop and third baseman from Texas posting a career-high 9.4 WAR in 161 games, finishing second in the AL MVP race and propelling the team to the postseason for the first time since that magical run in 2015.
This season, Witt and company will look to propel K.C. to even greater heights, with the Royals entering the MLB season with +110 odds of making the postseason once again this fall, per the team at DraftKings Sportsbook.
Should the Royals do that, they’ll likely have to play closer to the pace that their AL Central brethren like the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Guardians have kept to in March and April, with the two division juggernauts going 45-34 and 41-37 during the first two months of the season between 2022 and 2024.
The road to October begins inside Kauffman Stadium later this month, when the Guardians come to K.C. for a three-game set to open the season, with additional home tilts against the Baltimore Orioles, Twins, Colorado Rockies and Houston Astros on the docket during the month of April, as the Royals look to prove that last year’s postseason run was anything but a fluke.
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Christopher Boan is a lead writer for BetMissouri.com, specializing in covering state issues. He has covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
