Prior to the baseball season I wondered if the Kansas City Royals were going to avert yet another 100-loss season. My guessidiction (I merged the word “prediction” with “guess.” Get it? Like it? Thought not) was that they would improve and stay below 100 losses.

So far so good for the Royals.

Not so good for three other teams. Specifically, the San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners and Washington Generals. Nationals. Sorry. Honest mistake. Anyway, there may be a chance that three teams reach 100 losses in the Majors this year. The stats you need to know to move on in life.

Cough.

It’s not surprising the Gener…damn, Nationals (44-82) are on their way to a 100+ season and as a former Expos fan I choose to not waste time with them. That leaves the Padres and the Mariners.

It looked like Seattle (46-78) was on the right path after last season and were expected to be the main challengers in the AL West this year. Needless to say, that didn’t happen. As it turned out, neither the A’s or Rangers posed much of a threat to the Angels.

The thing about San Diego (48-76) is that if they were going to repeat last season’s performance they were going to need the same type of outstanding pitching or if that didn’t happen, improve their batting. They did neither.

In fact, their offense remains listless (and useless) as ever and their pitching went from being heralded as among the best in the the Majors to mediocre in the National League - though Jake Peavey has put up good numbers all things considered.

Just to add an exclamation point to season, Greg Maddux was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers who right now are doing everything in their power to gain an edge on the Arizona D-Backs in the NL West. May as well since between them, the team who doesn’t win the division is not likely going to make the wild card given their .500 records.

That all being said, between the Padres and Mariners I can’t figure out which is a bigger surprise.