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Kansas City Royals pitching has gone from an expectation of bottom feeding to the top half of the MLB very quickly.

Fangraphs finished their positional power rankings for 2025 last week and the one thing that really stood out to me was the opinion on the Royals pitching as a whole. Royals pitching has been bad to terrible for a very long time. Even when one unit is good, the other tends to struggle.

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