{"id":2018132,"date":"2025-09-13T01:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2018132"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:37:06","slug":"could-royals-reunite-with-all-star-slugger-to-boost-offense-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/could-royals-reunite-with-all-star-slugger-to-boost-offense-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Royals Reunite With All-Star Slugger To Boost Offense For 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Kansas City Royals are facing an uphill climb in the American League Wild Card standings. With a backbreaking 3-2 loss to the red-hot Cleveland Guardians on Thursday night, the Royals have fallen to five games back in the Wild Card race. They start a series with the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night that could ultimately seal their Wild Card fate, followed by a crucial series with the Seattle Mariners, who they are chasing in the race.<\/p>\n<p>A lot needs to go right for the Royals to make it back to the postseason. If they can&#8217;t get there, they&#8217;ll need to address their offensive issues in free agency or via trade. There will be plenty of bats available.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Reuter of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25247830-early-mlb-free-agency-big-board-top-25-players-2025-26-class\">Bleacher Report<\/a> lists former Royals slugger Ryan O&#8217;Hearn as a top 25 free agent. Perhaps the Royals could look into a reunion with the All-Star.<\/p>\n<h2>Royals Should Pursue Reunion With All-Star<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><\/p>\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.yardbarker.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals are facing an uphill climb in the American League Wild Card standings. With a backbreaking 3-2 loss to the red-hot Cleveland Guardians on Thursday night, the Royals have fallen to five games back in the Wild Card race. They start a series with the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night that could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2018133,"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-2018132","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\/09\/Could-Royals-Reunite-With-All-Star-Slugger-To-Boost-Offense-For.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018132","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=2018132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}