Since the sensory overload of the 2015 World Series, an increasingly dimming memory, Royals fans have been grappling with a franchise that was 184 games under .500 in its last seven full seasons (not including the pandemicshortened 2020 schedule). A club that entered 2024 having lost 100-plus games three times in that span, matching a team record with 106 losses in 2023, and that more often than…