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Game CXVII: Royals at Red Sox

Since the All-Star Break, the Royals are 11-14. They started 3-10 before a pretty unfathomable 7-game winning streak helped get them to .500 after 20 2nd half-games. While fun and a dramatic improvement, 11-14 remains unremarkable.

But it is improvement nonetheless.

Since the break Royals position players rank 5th in the American League in fWAR thanks to lots of strong defense and slightly above-average offense. Bobby Witt Jr alone has added 1.4 fWAR in these 20 games, while noted 28-year-old rookie sensation Freddy Fermin has added 1.0 fWAR with a 180 (!