Last season the Kansas City Royals went 74-88, averaging 4.23 runs per game and allowing 4.26. K.C. went 15-9 in April, then scuffled in May and June, playing .327 ball over a stretch of 55 games. The Royals played .500 ball in July, August, and September.
Starting pitching was an issue holding Kansas City back in 2021. Royals starters had a 4.97 ERA; only three teams in the AL fared worse. The club’s pitching staff was quite young, so the Royals are looking to build on last season and move forward.
In the offseason, Kansas City added one-time Royals SP Zack Greinke through free agency and RP Amir Garrett in a trade. They are looking for those hurlers to recapture some former glory and bolster the now-a-year-older young arms in the rotation and bullpen. Below, we look at the Kansas City Royals MLB futures odds, including their projected 2022 win total and World Series odds at Tipico Sportsbook.
Kansas City Royals 2022 World Series odds
Odds provided by Tipico Sportsbook; access USA TODAY Sports Scores and Sports Betting Odds hub for a full list. Lines last updated Wednesday, March 30 at 1:01 p.m. ET.
Odds: +8000 (bet $100 to win $8,000)
Kansas City fits into the bottom third of the league at those odds. The Los Angeles Dodgers (+480) are the favorites, followed by the Houston Astros (+900) and Toronto Blue Jays (+900). At +8000, K.C. has an implied probability of winning the World Series of 1.23% or 80/1 fractional odds. Only seven clubs have longer odds.
Things get muddy in the deep end of the odds pool, and books can more easily pad house take into the bigger payoffs (ie, listing a 100-to-1 shot at 80-to-1). Your futures bankroll is better spent elsewhere: PASS.
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Kansas City Royals 2022 playoff odds
Will the Royals make the playoffs: Yes +450 | No -649
The AL field at the top — and even in parts of the middle — is too strong to consider a Yes play. At such a price No is not advisable.
Kansas City Royals 2022 win total
Over/Under: 75.5 (O: -110 | U: -110)
Several prominent projection systems peg the Royals around 74-76 wins. Last year’s team was 6 games over-.500 in April despite being minus-2 in run differential. K.C. was .500 each month from July-September while allowing more runs than what it scored.
The talent level of the AL Central makes for some gray area, basically because a “73-win team” can win 70 or 78 games. One-run games and other fluctuations make for some luck. But if this 2022 Royals season were played out 10 times, figure enough win totals landing around 73 or 74 wins to make that the lean.
It’s a small lean: consider a partial-unit play on the UNDER 75.5 (-110).
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Odds to win AL Central Division
- Chicago White Sox -220 (bet $220 to win $100)
- Detroit Tigers +600 (bet $100 to win $600)
- Minnesota Twins +600 (bet $100 to win $600)
- Cleveland Guardians +1000 (bet $100 to win $1,000)
- Kansas City Royals +1500 (bet $100 to win $1,500)
Kansas City’s implied probability of winning the AL Central is 6.25% or 15/1 fractional odds. The Royals are almost no threat. They would need to take last year’s April and string two or three of those together in a wildly unlikely half-season hot streak. PASS.
Odds to win American League
Odds: +4000 (bet $100 to win $4,000)
The breakdown of the American League overall puts so many eggs in the baskets of clubs like the Astros, Blue Jays, White Sox, and Yankees. The Royals may be more of a consideration in a big favorite-and-all-others situation.
STEER CLEAR.
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