{"id":2169365,"date":"2025-11-20T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2169365"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:52:14","slug":"royals-star-bobby-witt-jr-wins-2025-heart-and-hustle-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-star-bobby-witt-jr-wins-2025-heart-and-hustle-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals star Bobby Witt Jr. wins 2025 Heart and Hustle Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bobby Witt Jr. has earned baseball\u2019s Heart & Hustle Award<\/a> for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n

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Witt, 25, is the second player to receive the honor twice, joining Hall of Famer Craig Biggio \u2014 who won in 2006 and 2007 \u2014 with that distinction.<\/p>\n

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The Heart & Hustle Award is handed out by the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association. It was created in 2005 and is awarded annually through a vote among alumni of the majors and active big-league players.<\/p>\n

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Witt continues to live up to the rich tradition of the award. The MLBPAA bestows the honor to a player who demonstrates passion for the game and best embodies its values, spirit and traditions.<\/p>\n

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This season, Witt led the league in hits and doubles. He posted a .295 batting average with 23 home runs and 88 RBIs. Additionally, he won a Gold Glove (and later a Platinum Glove) and Silver Slugger Award and was recognized as first-team All-MLB.<\/p>\n

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Witt has been a leader of the Royals\u2019 offense since arriving at the big-league level in 2022. He will return for his fifth MLB season in 2026 looking to get the organization back to the postseason.<\/p>\n

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Jaylon Thompson covers the Royals for The Kansas City Star. He previously covered the 2021 World Series and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jaylon is a proud alumnus of the University of Georgia.<\/span>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.kansascity.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Witt Jr. has earned baseball\u2019s Heart & Hustle Award for the second consecutive season. Witt, 25, is the second player to receive the honor twice, joining Hall of Famer Craig Biggio \u2014 who won in 2006 and 2007 \u2014 with that distinction. The Heart & Hustle Award is handed out by the Major League […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2140291,"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":[91466,416655,43627,25866],"class_list":["post-2169365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-heart-and-hustle-award","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-mlb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/KC-Royals-hire-Cullen-Maxey-in-revamped-front-office-role.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169365","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=2169365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169366,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169365\/revisions\/2169366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}