{"id":641700,"date":"2026-03-25T00:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/641700\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:32:45","slug":"royals-reacts-survey-will-the-royals-win-the-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/641700\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Reacts Survey &#8211; Will the Royals win the division?"},"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 Royals fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/0DWS6R\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/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\">The season starts Friday, and it\u2019s time for everyone who hasn\u2019t yet made their projections for the season to race to the deadline to tell you ahead of time who will do what for the next six months. Don\u2019t think you all are off the hook, just because you\u2019re readers and not writers! It\u2019s time for you all to do some work, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">PECOTA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/standings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thinks<\/a> the Royals should win the division; CBS Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/2026-mlb-standings-predictions-expert-picks-division-projections\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">does not<\/a>. FanGraphs is similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/standings\/projected-standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bearish<\/a>; ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48287373\/opening-day-2026-mlb-season-preview-rankings-every-team-playoff-odds-world-series-chances#kc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">argues<\/a> they need some luck. But what do you think? Can the Royals win their first AL Central division crown since 2015, which would make it only the second they\u2019ve ever earned?<\/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":2,"featured_media":641701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,77247,2596,2595,4,252,72937],"class_list":{"0":"post-641700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansas-city-royals-discussion","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascityroyals","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-royals","17":"tag-royals-review-question-of-the-day"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116287002895583566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}