{"id":2112168,"date":"2025-10-24T06:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2112168"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:36:32","slug":"royals-tie-yankees-blue-jays-with-al-best-four-silver-slugger-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-tie-yankees-blue-jays-with-al-best-four-silver-slugger-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Tie Yankees, Blue Jays With AL-Best Four Silver Slugger Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ac_107392608\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme first_text_block\">\n<p>The Kansas City Royals are still a long way from where they want to go, but at least they have some solid building blocks.  <\/p>\n<p>One might look at league-wide hitting statistics from this past season and think the Royals were straight-up bad offensively. But the truth is that they had some of the best hitters at their individual positions, as Thursday&#8217;s news indicates.<\/p>\n<p>American League Silver Slugger Award <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/silver-slugger-finalists-2025\">finalists were announced<\/a> by Major League Baseball on Thursday, and the Royals had four nominees: first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino, shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. , third baseman Maikel Garcia, and catcher Salvador Perez.<\/p>\n<p>That tied the Royals with the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays for the most finalists per team in the Junior Circuit.<\/p>\n<h2>Royals&#8217; offense was top-heavy this season<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"ac_107392610\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme \">\n<p>All four of the nominees deserve their shine, and all four will be major pillars of Kansas City&#8217;s offense next season. Perez and Pasquantino became the first Royals teammates ever to put up matching 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons. <\/p>\n<p>Witt could easily win the award despite putting up lesser statistics compared to last season, and Garcia was the breakout star of the year for the Royals&#8217; offense.<\/p>\n<p>However, the fact that the Royals had four offensive standouts and still finished 26th in both scoring offense and home runs in Major League Baseball is undoubtedly troubling. This is a top-heavy lineup, and it could get more top-heavy if trade deadline acquisition Mike Yastrzemski leaves without a clear replacement.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, the Royals have two young hitters with almost unlimited potential who could make their way into the opening day lineup. <\/p>\n<p>Their current No. 1 prospect, catcher Carter Jensen, lit opponents on fire in September, though it was a very small sample size. And their former No. 1 prospect, outfielder Jac Caglianone, got humbled by major league pitching after his call-up in June, but his raw power is among the top handful of hitters in the world, with exit velocities regularly topping 110 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday showed that the Royals&#8217; lineup is on the cusp of being above-average, maybe even excellent. But more role players need to step up behind the foursome of Silver Slugger hopefuls to take them to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/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 still a long way from where they want to go, but at least they have some solid building blocks. One might look at league-wide hitting statistics from this past season and think the Royals were straight-up bad offensively. 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