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We are in the final month of the season, and the Royals are desperately clinging to playoff hopes. As I write this, they stand 2.5 games back of a playoff spot with 24 left to play. They’re far from out of it, but as the Mariners and Red Sox have struggled, the Royals have failed to take advantage of the openings that have been left to them.

That begs the question: do the Royals need to make the playoffs this year in order to consider it a successful season? For some people, just finishing over the season .500, something the 21st-century Royals have done vanishingly rar

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