{"id":2178273,"date":"2025-11-26T23:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2178273"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:15:47","slug":"kansas-city-royals-2028-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kansas-city-royals-2028-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals &#8211; 2028 Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>2023 record: 56-106 (5th in AL Central)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2024 record: 86-76 (2nd in AL Central)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2025 record: 80-82 (3rd in AL Central)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Royals have finally emerged from their near-decade slumber as an ascending young team with playoff potential. 2024 was their first season above .500 since their 2015 World Series campaign, going from a lowly 56-win season to giving the Yankees a surprising run for their money in the ALDS. By comparison, 2025&#8217;s 3rd place finish was a bit of a letdown, but there is still plenty of hope that the Royals can become serious contenders with such a strong young offensive core &#8211; they just have to round out the rest of the lineup to ascend to the next level.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectslive.com\/tag\/2028-lineups\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<p>2028 Lineups &#8211; Prospects Live<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"offense\">Offense<\/h2>\n<p><em>20th &#8211; .247\/.309\/.397, 651 R, 159 HR, 111 SB, 435 BB, 1096 K<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-signup-card kg-width-regular \" data-lexical-signup-form=\"\" style=\"background-color: #F0F0F0; display: none;\">\n<div class=\"kg-signup-card-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-signup-card-text \">\n<h2 class=\"kg-signup-card-heading\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Sign up for Prospects Live<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"kg-signup-card-subheading\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Your one stop shop for Dynasty Fantasy Baseball, MLB Draft, Baseball Card &amp; MiLB Baseball content. 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Unsubscribe anytime.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"post-upgrade-cta\">\n<h2>This post is for subscribers on the 55 Tier (Everyday Regular), 60 Tier (All-Star), 70 Tier (MVP), 80 Tier (Hall of Fame) and MLB Teams &amp; Agencies only<\/h2>\n<p>Become a subscriber now and gain access to articles, tools, and stay updated with Prospects Live.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectslive.com\/membership\/\">Become a member<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectslive.com\/signin\/\" data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/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.prospectslive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 record: 56-106 (5th in AL Central) 2024 record: 86-76 (2nd in AL Central) 2025 record: 80-82 (3rd in AL Central) The Kansas City Royals have finally emerged from their near-decade slumber as an ascending young team with playoff potential. 2024 was their first season above .500 since their 2015 World Series campaign, going from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2178274,"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-2178273","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\/11\/Kansas-City-Royals-2028-Lineup.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178273","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=2178273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178275,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178273\/revisions\/2178275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2178274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}