The Royals’ franchise is bad, but the Brewers’ franchise is worse
The Kansas City Royals and Milwaukee Brewers both began in 1969 and both teams have a long way to go before reaching a franchise .500 record.
High Heat Stats
High Heat Stats is an online resource for informative baseball articles focused on deep statistical analysis.
HHS has an active following on Twitter and often mixes extremely complex stats with fun trivial facts about the game.
The founder of HHS has contributed several art pieces to the Hero Habit store including hand drawn baseball card recreations. Writers from the official blog have also contributed articles for this site.
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