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It\u2019s crazy how many life lessons you can learn from toddlers and how you equate those to things your favorite baseball team does. When JJ Picollo asked if the Royals were striking out enough, I got goosebumps. I\u2019m not exaggerating here. I\u2019m a nerd, so it\u2019s fine if you didn\u2019t, but when he openly wondered that, I felt vindicated in my belief in this front office. For as long as I can remember, the Royals were built on the premise that the more contact, the better. Striking out is part of the game, but something the Royals vowed to do less than anyone. They didn\u2019t always accomplish that, but they often did. Here is their strikeout rate in each of the last five seasons, with first being the lowest strikeout rate and 30th the highest:<\/p>\n
2025: 2<\/p>\n
2024: 3<\/p>\n
2023: 18<\/p>\n
2022: 8<\/p>\n
2021: 3<\/p>\n
The only year they didn\u2019t finish in the top eight was the only year in that group of five that saw them lose 100 games. Asked and answered, I guess, right? Well, here\u2019s where they ranked in runs scored:<\/p>\n
2021: 24<\/p>\n
2025: 26<\/p>\n
2024: 13<\/p>\n
2023: 23<\/p>\n
2022: 24<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s crazy how many life lessons you can learn from toddlers and how you equate those to things your favorite baseball team does. When JJ Picollo asked if the Royals were striking out enough, I got goosebumps. I\u2019m not exaggerating here. I\u2019m a nerd, so it\u2019s fine if you didn\u2019t, but when he openly wondered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2083051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[320400,340725],"class_list":["post-2083050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-general","tag-royals-rumblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kansas-City-Royals-news-John-Sherman-talks-payroll-Picollo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083052,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083050\/revisions\/2083052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2083051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}