Catching Up With Posnanki’s ‘Experts’

By DAVID MARTIN

Hey, Joe, please sign it to your buddy, unrealistic optimism.

In what has become an annual rite of spring training, The Kansas City Star‘s Joe Posnanski lays out dream-world scenarios the Royals will ride to rediscovered glory. Usually, of course, the team ends up with 100 losses.

This season, Posnanski admitted to thoughts of killing the concept. Popular demand (a Web poll) prompted to Joe to don rose-colored glasses once again. So off the columnist went to solicit quotes the baseball people — scouts, executives, players — he trusts mosts.

Sixty-nine games remain on the schedule. Yet, once again, the assessments of Posnanski’s informants are holding up about as well Runelvys Hernandez’ pants after a turn through the post-game buffet: