{"id":2153259,"date":"2025-11-13T03:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2153259"},"modified":"2025-11-13T03:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:33:25","slug":"kansas-city-royals-owner-john-sherman-says-ballpark-site-still-undecided-as-team-evaluates-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kansas-city-royals-owner-john-sherman-says-ballpark-site-still-undecided-as-team-evaluates-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman says ballpark site still undecided as team evaluates options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"c-media-item b-article-body__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/resizer\/v2\/YIA47WRIRVUHIUH4PVG5JD3ZIY.jpg?auth=a9002c40a0c2221fd666afed6af8ba8d4331c1f0557fdeace5152354d80887f5&amp;width=800&amp;height=533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/resizer\/v2\/YIA47WRIRVUHIUH4PVG5JD3ZIY.jpg?auth=a9002c40a0c2221fd666afed6af8ba8d4331c1f0557fdeace5152354d80887f5&amp;width=274&amp;height=182 274w, https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/resizer\/v2\/YIA47WRIRVUHIUH4PVG5JD3ZIY.jpg?auth=a9002c40a0c2221fd666afed6af8ba8d4331c1f0557fdeace5152354d80887f5&amp;width=400&amp;height=266 400w, https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/resizer\/v2\/YIA47WRIRVUHIUH4PVG5JD3ZIY.jpg?auth=a9002c40a0c2221fd666afed6af8ba8d4331c1f0557fdeace5152354d80887f5&amp;width=768&amp;height=511 768w, https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/resizer\/v2\/YIA47WRIRVUHIUH4PVG5JD3ZIY.jpg?auth=a9002c40a0c2221fd666afed6af8ba8d4331c1f0557fdeace5152354d80887f5&amp;width=1024&amp;height=682 1024w, https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/resizer\/v2\/YIA47WRIRVUHIUH4PVG5JD3ZIY.jpg?auth=a9002c40a0c2221fd666afed6af8ba8d4331c1f0557fdeace5152354d80887f5&amp;width=1440&amp;height=959 1440w\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/><figcaption class=\"c-media-item__fig-caption\"><span class=\"c-media-item__caption\">Royals owner John Sherman reiterated that the team has not \u201cpicked a final location\u201d for a new ballpark as they are \u201cstill evaluating options and gathering information.\u201d <\/span><span class=\"c-media-item__credit\">ap images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<article class=\"b-article-body \">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Royals owner John Sherman reiterated that the team has not \u201cpicked a final location\u201d for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/20\/north-kc-royals-working-toward-new-ballpark-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/20\/north-kc-royals-working-toward-new-ballpark-agreement\/\">a new ballpark<\/a> as they are \u201cstill evaluating options and gathering information,\u201d according to Jaylon Thompson of the K.C. STAR. Sherman said, \u201cThese are complex, multi-jurisdiction public and private partnerships. They always take longer than any of us hope. And you know, they really should take a long time. It\u2019s a generational decision and we\u2019ve got to get it right.\u201d Thompson wrote the Royals are \u201ccommitted to keeping the organization in Kansas City &#8212; a fulfillment invoked by former owner Ewing Kauffman.\u201d Royals new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/27\/royals-hire-cullen-maxey-as-president-of-business-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/27\/royals-hire-cullen-maxey-as-president-of-business-operations\/\">President of Business Operations Cullen Maxey<\/a> was welcomed to the organization on Monday afternoon, and he will \u201coversee all departments outside of baseball operations.\u201d Maxey spent 20 seasons with the D-backs organization and \u201chelped oversee the planning of the Salt River Fields Complex and an entertainment district in Phoenix.\u201d Maxey\u2019s arrival \u201cshifts Brooks Sherman &#8212; no relation to John &#8212; to a new position.\u201d Brooks Sherman has become the Royals\u2019 President of Real Estate and Development. His job will be \u201cfocused on the club\u2019s pursuit to build\u201d a new ballpark (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/article312863094.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/article312863094.html\"><i>K.C. STAR, 11\/11<\/i><\/a>). <\/p>\n<\/article>\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.sportsbusinessjournal.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royals owner John Sherman reiterated that the team has not \u201cpicked a final location\u201d for a new ballpark as they are \u201cstill evaluating options and gathering information.\u201d ap images Royals owner John Sherman reiterated that the team has not \u201cpicked a final location\u201d for a new ballpark as they are \u201cstill evaluating options and gathering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[378060,25866],"class_list":["post-2153259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty","tag-leadership","tag-mlb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153259","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=2153259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153260,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153259\/revisions\/2153260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}