{"id":2277895,"date":"2026-02-11T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2277895"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:40:09","slug":"what-was-the-most-miserable-royals-season-you-endured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-was-the-most-miserable-royals-season-you-endured\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the most miserable Royals season you endured?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Most readers here love the game of baseball and love our Royals, but there are some seasons that truly test us. The hitters can\u2019t hit, the pitchers can\u2019t throw strikes, the ball gets kicked around the field, and the losses pile up. By June, you already have an eye towards Chiefs training camp. You\u2019re a real sicko if you\u2019re watching a 106-loss Royals team get beat down by the Twins in front of a few hundred fans in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">By pure losses, here are the worst seasons in Royals history:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">2023 (106 losses) \u2013 A bad season after a long rebuild, but there seemed to be hope about the future<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">2005 (106 losses) \u2013 Tony Pe\u00f1a quits in the middle of the season, and the Buddy Bell era isn\u2019t any better<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">2018 (104 losses) \u2013 The entire championship team departs, leaving a lot of \u201cwho is this guy?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">2004 (104 losses) \u2013 Fresh off a surprise run in 2003, this team fell flat on their face<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">2019 (103 losses) \u2013 Allowed 219 home runs, second-most in club history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">2006 (100 losses) \u2013 Gave up a club record 971 runs, getting Allard Baird fired<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">2002 (100 losses) \u2013 Chuck Knoblauch and Neifi Perez. Enough said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\">But maybe it was a season that was miserable for other reasons \u2013 Dick Howser\u2019s death in 1986? The strike-shortened almost-contention of 1994? Maybe it was miserable for reasons in your personal life?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Royals fans have lived through rebuilds, retools, collapses, and the long, quiet stretches in between contention windows. So let\u2019s ask the uncomfortable question: what was the most miserable Royals season you ever endured as a fan?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most readers here love the game of baseball and love our Royals, but there are some seasons that truly test us. The hitters can\u2019t hit, the pitchers can\u2019t throw strikes, the ball gets kicked around the field, and the losses pile up. By June, you already have an eye towards Chiefs training camp. You\u2019re a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2277896,"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":[441099,441102,441100,441101,43627,357718,383617,439088],"class_list":["post-2277895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-buddy-bell","tag-chuck-knoblauch","tag-jimmy-gobble","tag-john-buck","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-royals-fans","tag-royals-team"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/What-was-the-most-miserable-Royals-season-you-endured.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277895","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=2277895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277897,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277895\/revisions\/2277897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}