2007-08-10 08:43:35 · 23 answers · asked by Vilhelm 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Only if George Brett comes back
2007-08-10 08:46:08 · answer #1 · answered by Jay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problems the Royals have (like other smaller clubs as well) is money and talent. They can get talent from the minors or trade for some with other teams, but they really cant keep it.
If the team could keep what they have now, sure in a few years it might be feasible. The rub is that other teams are willing to buy talent where ever they can find it and this means stripping away what little the Royals have to work with. Its like building a tower, having a neighbor come and take several blocks and you having to start over again. This problem isnt just with the Royals, but its sport wide.
The Royals are not the richest team by a lot shot. Unfortunatly, money now drives this sport and who ever has the biggest wallet can control where the big players will go.
2007-08-10 08:56:40 · answer #2 · answered by sixtymm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Baseball is obviously lopsided where the teams that spend the most money are the teams that win the most games and hence contend for the World Series. The Royals don't spend the kind of money necessary to contend.
I think baseball will work slowly toward a profit sharing situation similar to pro football. It's tougher because the kind of money that the Yankees makes far exceeds that of a team like KC. But I do expect eventually the game will require some parity to keep and maintain the fan base the way the NFL does.
2007-08-10 09:10:11 · answer #3 · answered by kingsteve14 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eventually KC will make the Series again. They're slowly getting better. As a lifelong Royals fan I'm looking to small gains over a long period of time like finishing in 4th place, then maybe having a .500 season, making the playoffs, then advancing in the playoffs. I'm not holding my breath for the WS, but I'm sure they'll make it again at some point.
2007-08-10 09:01:17 · answer #4 · answered by DoReidos 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not as long as there isn't a limit on payroll. When big-market teams like the Yankees have a payroll more than three times that of smaller teams like the Royals, there is no way to compete. That's especially the case in a 162-game season where the team with the most talent ($$$) will almost always prevail.
Any time a small market team gets a good player he is plucked by the teams who can afford the kind of salary his talent (apparently) warrants.
It's not really going out on a limb to predict that money will be the slow death of baseball.
2007-08-10 08:54:43 · answer #5 · answered by Peter D 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No time soon. Word has it they will soon be the Portland Royals or Little Rock Royals. The owners since Kauffman havent exactly given Kansas City their love, have they?
2007-08-10 08:48:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As i die hard royals fan, I hope so. The Central is the one division where you have some flux. I do seem them winning a division in the near future. The WS? Gosh, you have to get past Boston and the Yankees and that's a pretty tall order. I hope, but, I'm not feeling it right now
2007-08-10 09:03:10 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Cellophane 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the way small industry communities war, one wonders. i could decide directly to think of so. i'm a Yankees fan (i be attentive to, thumbs down) yet i like to ascertain small industry communities make reliable. i'm a closet Pittsburgh Pirates fan, i've got grown to love them in the NL. i'm hoping they could, yet its lots harder to choose skills, and if the Royals make a mistake, they're kinda screwed. If the Yanks have an added 10 million on the payroll, it is no longer very nearly as large of a situation because of the fact they could have the money for it. Pitching and protection would be the two determiners sooner or later, and the Royals have a respectable middle of teenage leaguers. optimistically their skills will enhance properly. to respond to your question, my coronary heart says particular, yet my head says no.
2016-12-30 08:38:48 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything is possible - the Marlins went from nothing to the world series twice... probably have a better shot doing it before the Red Sox or Cubs do!
2007-08-14 08:08:27 · answer #9 · answered by angelhugger1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. Anybody can make it there. Just look at the Marlins. With such a low payroll, however, they need to field a team of super talented young studs along with one or maybe two recognizable names (that's including pitching). Then they have a shot. But it's extremely rare to get young stud players in the first place, let alone have your team littered with them.
2007-08-10 09:00:20 · answer #10 · answered by baseball_is_my_life 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, probably next year they will play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.
2007-08-10 09:01:48 · answer #11 · answered by rob d 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋