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As for Pasquantino, he hit 32 home runs, collected 113 RBI, and posted a 116 wRC+ in 682 plate appearances. His HR and RBI totals led all Royals players. He didn\u2019t produce in other categories (i.e., baserunning and defense), which explains why his fWAR was only 1.5 last season (the same as his 2024 mark). Nonetheless, Pasquantino became the slugger the Royals needed at the top of the batting order.<\/p>\n
Both will be arbitration-eligible for the first time this offseason. It will be interesting to see if the Royals offer one or both of them extensions to keep them cost-controlled in the long term. <\/p>\n
Last year, Witt finished second in the AL MVP race to Aaron Judge. However, in any other year, the Royals\u2019 shortstop would\u2019ve won it. In 709 plate appearances, he hit 32 home runs, scored 125 runs, collected 109 RBI, stole 31 bases, and posted a wRC+ of 169 and fWAR of 10.5.<\/p>\n
This year was a \u201cdown\u201d year for Witt, as he likely won\u2019t finish in the top-three for AL MVP (though he certainly could be top-five). That said, he still was incredibly productive and put up \u201csuperstar\u201d production despite his \u201cregression.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 687 plate appearances, Witt hit 23 home runs, scored 99 runs, collected 88 RBI, stole 38 bases, and posted a wRC+ of 130 and fWAR of 8.0. Like Garcia, he was named a Gold Glove finalist at shortstop and should be a favorite to win the award after netting his first Gold Glove in 2024. <\/p>\n
A lot of clubs would take this kind of \u201cdown\u201d season from their star player, resulting not just in an 8.0 fWAR campaign, but also in leading the league in hits for a second-straight season. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.justbaseball.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As for Pasquantino, he hit 32 home runs, collected 113 RBI, and posted a 116 wRC+ in 682 plate appearances. His HR and RBI totals led all Royals players. He didn\u2019t produce in other categories (i.e., baserunning and defense), which explains why his fWAR was only 1.5 last season (the same as his 2024 mark). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2116606,"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-2116605","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\/Six-Takeaways-From-the-Kansas-City-Royals-2025-Season.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116605","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=2116605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116607,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116605\/revisions\/2116607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}