Can the Royals Win With a Power Outage?

Can the Royals Win With a Power Outage?

 

The Kansas City Royals have a serious power outage. With 12 home runs as a team on the season they cannot for the life of them hit the ball out of the park. Now granted, hitting a lot of home runs does not necessarily guarantee winning, but it sure does help. If they want to contend not only with the Tigers for the division title but with the rest of the American League for a chance at the World Series they are going to have to solve this power issue.

The Royals have many exceptional contact hitters such as Nori Aoki, Omar Infante, Eric Hosmer, Billy Butler, and Alex Gordon. The problem is, especially these days, there are so many defensive shifts that contact hitting is getting more difficult. There needs to be guys in the lineup that can scare the opposition into thinking they could hit it out.

The Royals do play in a more pitcher friendly park so that is going to affect power numbers anyway but if they cannot start hitting home runs with consistency it won’t matter how well they pitch. So far this season their pitching is what has kept them afloat. Losing Ervin Santana should have been a much bigger blow than it’s been but Jason Vargas and Yordano Ventura have come in and shined thus far.

The arms are there for Kansas City to make some noise and their hitters are good enough to break out of the power slump they are in but they need it to happen soon. The AL Central is up for grabs no doubt as Detroit has yet to show any ability to dominate and break away from the pack. The Royals need to be able to make a statement and show they are in this race for the long haul.