{"id":1970315,"date":"2025-08-20T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1970315"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:32:38","slug":"royals-bobby-witt-jr-makes-mlb-history-with-100th-hr-joins-alex-rodriguez-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-bobby-witt-jr-makes-mlb-history-with-100th-hr-joins-alex-rodriguez-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals’ Bobby Witt Jr. Makes MLB History with 100th HR, Joins Alex Rodriguez, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kansas City Royals star Bobby Witt Jr. notched the 100th home run of his MLB career in Tuesday’s 5-2 win over the Texas Rangers. In doing so, he entered an elite group of shortstops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Five others at the position have reached the century mark through their age-25 season, a group that includes \u00c1lex Rodr\u00edguez and Cal Ripken Jr.:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It was special, just seeing the kind of names on the list or whatever they showed,” Witt said<\/a> after the game. “But now, it’s just kind of on to the next. It was special. We enjoy it. And now it’s just on to the next game.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 25-year-old is also the youngest in Royals history to get to 100 dingers:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Witt went 1-for-4 on Tuesday night and made his one hit count. He hammered a Cole Winn cutter 449 feet over the center field fence. That gave Kansas City a three-run cushion before John Schreiber nailed down the save in the ninth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The two-time All-Star debuted for Kansas City in 2022 and made a big jump in his second season, finishing seventh in the American League MVP voting. Last year, he had the second-most WAR (10.5) among position players at FanGraphs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Witt isn’t quite matching that pace in 2025, he has a .291\/.351\/.493 slash line and is leading all of MLB in doubles with 38.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Royals were proactive in keeping their franchise cornerstone around for the long term. Witt’s $288.8 million<\/a> extension goes through 2037, though he can opt out as early as 2031.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s hard not to start projecting out and imagining where he could rank among Kansas City greats if he sticks around for the majority of that deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source bleacherreport.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Royals star Bobby Witt Jr. notched the 100th home run of his MLB career in Tuesday’s 5-2 win over the Texas Rangers. In doing so, he entered an elite group of shortstops. Five others at the position have reached the century mark through their age-25 season, a group that includes \u00c1lex Rodr\u00edguez and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1970316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Royals-Bobby-Witt-Jr-Makes-MLB-History-with-100th-HR-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}