Pictured above is the expected starting second baseman for the 2012 Royals … Ok, that's not true. The 24-year-old Johnny Giavotella is the early favorite to start at 2B, but the picture does well in representing the Royals product this season. Kansas City plans on serving up a whole lotta youth, currently standing as the youngest team in MLB, with an average age of under 26 years old. With one of the top farm systems in the league and some promising young talents like Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas and Aaron Crow having already arrived, a Royals fan should have every reason to don shades in anticipation of a bright future for the franchise. But the reality is that the Royals haven't finished as high as second place in the AL Central since '95, and their last division title was a decade before that, when they were still a member of the AL West. The immediate future looks like another in a long line of also-ran campaigns for the Royals, but that doesn't mean they are insignificant from a fantasy standpoint.