Jolly Olive

I mean, I think the bullpen stuff really started with Carlos Estevez coming out and not being the same guy.

That is like the head of the snake getting cut off, and they've been kind of scrambling ever since back there.

And a lot of what we said in the preseason was like, this team goes as far as Bobby Wood Jr.

takes them, and he hasn't gotten off to a bad start.

He's held to a different standard, so if he doesn't go...

to that level, it holds the team back a little bit.

I'm always a little hard on the Royals whenever I come on the show just because the one year they made it was the year that the White Sox lost 120 games and we had three teams from the AL Central.

So I wanted to see them succeed when it felt like you couldn't just stat pad against the White Sox, if that makes sense.

And we saw that with...

the guardians and tigers last year, who both made it to the playoffs and both had nice years while the Royals kind of took that step back.

I still really believe in this pitching staff is specifically the rotation, but you know, they need better performances out of Vinny P and Sal.

And I mean, India has not really been the same ever since he got there.

I am really excited for Jack Aglione, though.

He's had a nice start to the year after what was a really tough couple months that he had last year where it looked like he got called up too soon.

It's nice to see him succeed after the team Italy stuff.

But this is a back-breaking series to lose these three games the way they did where they led in all three of them.

They had a chance to sweep a division rival on their turf and instead it 180s into the worst possible outcome.

And you hope that it just doesn't spiral beyond this.

Wow.

You know a lot of baseball players.