After a brief rise in the walks, home runs, and runs category rankings, the jolt the Royals got from the rookies being inserted in the lineup was offset by losing a struggling Salvador Perez to injury and other general ineptness, so the rise has plateaued the Royals offense to their usual “very bad, just not quite the worst” status.

Losers of 7 of their last 10 and owning the worst run differential in baseball, the Royals have been shutout 6 times in 52 games (shutout 9 times all of 2021) and have scored 2 runs or fewer in 17.

The four rookies in the lineup – Bobby Witt Jr., MJ Melendez, Kyle Isbel, Emmanuel Rivera – have accounted for just 35% of the plate appearances since May 23rd, but 60% of the Royals home runs and 45% of the RBI.

The record is now 17-35, 3 games behind the Detroit Tigers in last place of the AL Central.

Year	Walks	Home runs	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
2022 – April 25	30th	26th	29th
2022 – May 2	25th	28th	30th
2022 – May 9	28th	29th	30th – Tied
2022 – May 16	27th	28th	27th
2022 – May 23	26th	27th	27th
2022 – June 6	27th	28th	26th