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Kansas City Royals Preview

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The Kansas City Royals are relevant again. After years of seeing false hopes raised and dashed, the good people of Kansas City were able to watch their team compete for a playoff spot into the final week of the 2013 regular season.

It was the first winning season for the franchise in ten years and gives a reasonable basis for hope that the first playoff berth since the team’s championship year of 1985—and first of the post-1993 realignment era—will be forthcoming. What follows is the Notebook Nine, our nine talking points on the Royals as the new season begins…

MLB Coverage: Kansas City Pitches Its Way Into The Race

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The Kansas City Royals just keep coming in the American League wild-card race. The Royals are 34-20 since the All-Star break, and within 2 ½ games of the playoffs in a jam-packed race that has six teams battling for two spots. TheSportsNotebook’s MLB coverage looks at how Kansas City has turned it around.

MLB Coverage: Kansas City’s Lack Of Hitting Is Offensive

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The Kansas City Royals weren’t expected to win the American League Central, and at 46-51, they’re still in reasonable striking distance of their first winning season since 2003. So it could be taken as unfair for today’s MLB coverage to tear into them as a disappointing. But coming into Wednesday’s games, I think this team should be in much better shape and the blame has to be pinned on the offense.