{"id":202731,"date":"2025-09-05T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202731\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:16:09","slug":"royals-reacts-results-defining-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202731\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Reacts Results: Defining success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year, we ask questions of the most plugged-in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalsreview.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kansas City Royals<\/strong><\/a> fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/0DWS6R\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sign up here<\/strong><\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier this week we asked what the Royals would have to do to consider this season a success. Once again, we received a clear majority answer. The Royals need to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What I find most interesting about this poll, however, is the second-place result: That the season is already successful for having made it to September still in the hunt. That\u2019s encouraging, as much of the discourse on social media has been about how truly terrible this team was. One memorable fan exclaimed that this was the worst Royals team ever. That, of course, is demonstrably false.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for reaching the playoffs, which 99% of poll respondents would deem successful, as it would include both of the other top two results, the Royals still have a shot, even after losing the Angels series. They\u2019re still only two games back of a playoff spot, but time is running out. There are fewer than 30 games left to play. If the Royals are going to make it, they\u2019re probably going to need to start scoring runs again, as they have scored three or fewer in eight of their last fourteen games. That\u2019s no way to leap to the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year, we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[834,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-202731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-general","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}