{"id":1976348,"date":"2025-08-23T16:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1976348"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:55:31","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-ryan-bergert-impresses-royals-hitters-are-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kansas-city-royals-news-ryan-bergert-impresses-royals-hitters-are-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Ryan Bergert impresses, Royals hitters are patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">How are they crushing the ball?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">By swinging less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Before the break, the proverbial first half, the Royals had the sixth-highest swing rate in the majors. In and of itself, that\u2019s not necessarily terrible, but this part of the statistic is: They also had the fourth-highest chase rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">I analyzed all of that earlier this year, as the offense barreled toward the possibility of the lowest-scoring team in franchise history. The Royals were swinging at all the wrong pitches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In the second half, the Royals have the fourth-lowest chase rate in baseball. That\u2019s after the fourth-highest for the initial three-plus months. And overall, they have swung at fewer pitches than any team in the AL.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are they crushing the ball? By swinging less. Before the break, the proverbial first half, the Royals had the sixth-highest swing rate in the majors. In and of itself, that\u2019s not necessarily terrible, but this part of the statistic is: They also had the fourth-highest chase rate. I analyzed all of that earlier this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1976349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[340725],"class_list":["post-1976348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-royals-rumblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kansas-City-Royals-news-Ryan-Bergert-impresses-Royals-hitters-are.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976348","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=1976348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}