{"id":646845,"date":"2026-03-27T16:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/646845\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:23:19","slug":"royals-react-results-kc-looks-like-a-playoff-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/646845\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals React Results: KC looks like a playoff team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year, we ask questions of the most plugged-in\u00a0Kansas City Royals<\/a>\u00a0fans and fans across the country.\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, we asked Royals fans if the team was going to win the AL Central. The majority of you said no.<\/p>\n

\"Results<\/p>\n

Results showing 43% thing the Royals will not win the division, but will earn a Wild Card Spot, 39% believe they will win the division, and 18% think they\u2019ll miss the playoffs entirely<\/p>\n

Add it all up, and 61% of fans think the Royals will finish the season with still only one AL Central crown to their name. Not only that, but 42% of those who believed they wouldn\u2019t win the division further believe they won\u2019t even be good enough for a playoff spot. This stands in interesting contrast to the general predictions thread we put up<\/a> earlier this week, where 56.5% of respondents believed the Royals would win the division. It looks like different polling methods will return different results, but that\u2019s nothing new. I recommend you google the subject if you want to learn more.<\/p>\n

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A more positive way to spin the results is that 82% of respondents believed the Royals would make the playoffs in one form or another. I sure hope you\u2019re right, even if I\u2019m still hoping for a division crown. If you\u2019re not tired of making predictions about the Royals yet, you should give a listen to the latest episode<\/a> of the Royals Rundown podcast. In there, Jacob and I made a variety of predictions about the Royals and offered up an opportunity for you all to earn a small gift card by making your own.<\/p>\n

Either way, we won\u2019t have to survive on predictions alone for much longer. The Royals finally play baseball, tonight!<\/p>\n

These survey results are sponsored by\u00a0FanDuel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year, we ask questions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[7278,5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,61,252,373,2122],"class_list":["post-646845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-2015-world-series","tag-baseball","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-royals","tag-salvador-perez","tag-the-royals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116302068037801903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646845","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=646845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}