{"id":2091854,"date":"2025-10-15T02:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2091854"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:10:58","slug":"sherman-discusses-royals-offseason-plans-and-payroll-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sherman-discusses-royals-offseason-plans-and-payroll-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherman Discusses Royals\u2019 Offseason Plans and Payroll Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Royals chairman and CEO John Sherman said he feels good about the team\u2019s direction but remains unsatisfied after finishing 82-80 and missing the postseason. Speaking with MLB.com, Sherman expressed confidence in general manager J.J. Picollo and manager Matt Quatraro, crediting both for their leadership and attention to improvement.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals plan to revamp their hitting department after scoring 84 fewer runs than in 2024. Sherman said the team\u2019s payroll, around $138 million in 2025, is \u201cin a good spot\u201d and comparable to sustainable mid-market models like Milwaukee\u2019s. He emphasized balancing veteran contracts with younger, lower-salary players.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City has six players on guaranteed deals for 2026 and 16 eligible for arbitration, including Vinnie Pasquantino and Maikel Garcia. Sherman also confirmed interest in keeping Salvador Perez beyond next season, calling the veteran catcher \u201ca Hall of Famer\u201d and a key part of the franchise\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 kclyradio.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royals chairman and CEO John Sherman said he feels good about the team\u2019s direction but remains unsatisfied after finishing 82-80 and missing the postseason. Speaking with MLB.com, Sherman expressed confidence in general manager J.J. Picollo and manager Matt Quatraro, crediting both for their leadership and attention to improvement. The Royals plan to revamp their hitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2091109,"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-2091854","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\/10\/Longtime-Royals-Coach-Mike-Jirschele-Retires-After-48-Years-in.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091854","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=2091854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091855,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091854\/revisions\/2091855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2091109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}