In the middle of the 2021 season, upon the launch of this prestigious website, we published this column that showed the historic offensive ineptitude deployed by the Royals in the categories of walks, homeruns, and runs, since Dayton Moore took over full time in 2007.

Of these three offensive categories – walks, homeruns, runs – the Royals have finished a season last in the major leagues as many times (8) as they’ve finished in the top 20. Astonishing. Darn near impossible, one might think.

Now that a full week’s worth of games have been played during the 2022 season, we will begin tracking the progress of the Royals offense to see if they can break the tie between being the worst offense in baseball in any one of these categories, by merely doing enough to crack the top 20 and be in the top 66% in all of baseball.

First full week of 2022 is not off to a good start:

	Walks	Homeruns	Runs
2007	29th	30th	27th
2008	30th	27th	25th
2009	27th	24th	23rd
2010	23rd	26th	20th
2011	25th	21st	10th
2012	30th	26th	20th
2013	26th	28th	18th
2014	30th	30th (95 total!)	14th
2015	29th	24th	7th
2016	30th	27th	23rd
2017	30th	20th	24th
2018	28th	26th	25th
2019	26th	28th	26th
2020	25th	20th	24th
2021	30th	27th	24th
2022 – April 18	30th	29th	28th

*red font denotes last in MLB

*underline font denotes top 20 in MLB

*underline and bold font denotes top 10 in MLB