{"id":2094656,"date":"2025-10-16T05:42:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2094656"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:42:48","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-only-166-days-until-opening-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kansas-city-royals-news-only-166-days-until-opening-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Only 166 days until Opening Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">O\u2019Hearn hit .281\/.366\/.437 with 17 home runs, 63 RBI, 2.4 Wins Above Replacement and an .803 OPS. He was traded from the Baltimore Orioles to the San Diego Padres at the deadline this past summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Even after an All-Star campaign, he shouldn\u2019t be overly expensive for the Royals, and they could potentially sign him to a deal with opt-out clauses. He can serve as a regular designated hitter, but can also play a little outfield as well. That was where the Royals truly lacked production in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">He brings power from the left side of the plate and is a consistent hitter, and he could significantly bolster the Royals\u2019 lineup if he indeed returns. This could potentially even put the Royals back in contention for at least a Wild Card spot in 2026.<\/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>O\u2019Hearn hit .281\/.366\/.437 with 17 home runs, 63 RBI, 2.4 Wins Above Replacement and an .803 OPS. He was traded from the Baltimore Orioles to the San Diego Padres at the deadline this past summer. Even after an All-Star campaign, he shouldn\u2019t be overly expensive for the Royals, and they could potentially sign him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2094657,"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":[320400,340725],"class_list":["post-2094656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-general","tag-royals-rumblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kansas-City-Royals-news-Only-166-days-until-Opening-Day.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094656","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=2094656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094658,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094656\/revisions\/2094658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2094657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}