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KANSAS CITY, Mo \u2014 <\/span>The Kansas City Royals announced that Kauffman Stadium’s outfield wall will be moved in for the 2026 season, a change expected to increase home runs and extra-base hits while bringing fans closer to the action. The decision, made by Baseball Operations for competitive reasons, aims to align The K with other Major League ballparks. “We\u2019ve discussed this possibility for years, and after much work by our Research & Development department, believe this will be a positive change for our baseball team,” said Royals Executive Vice President and General Manager J.J. Picollo. The wall will be moved in 8 to 10 feet starting near each foul pole, with gaps reduced from 387 feet to 379 feet, while centerfield will remain 410 feet. The wall height will change from 10 feet to 8 1\/2 feet, adding about 150 seats in left field and 80 new drinkrail seats in right. The Royals’ research suggests these changes will elevate the run value of fly balls at The K from the bottom third to the middle among MLB ballparks. “Making this a fairer ballpark will help with roster construction, but more importantly will allow our players to keep the same approach regardless of where we play,” said Royals Vice President \u2013 Research & Development\/Assistant GM Dr. Daniel Mack. The project is set to be completed before the Royals’ home opener against the Twins on March 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/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 foxnebraska.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KANSAS CITY, Mo \u2014 The Kansas City Royals announced that Kauffman Stadium’s outfield wall will be moved in for the 2026 season, a change expected to increase home runs and extra-base hits while bringing fans closer to the action. The decision, made by Baseball Operations for competitive reasons, aims to align The K with other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2233684,"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-2233683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Royals-to-move-Kauffman-Stadium-outfield-wall-for-2026-season.jfif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233683","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=2233683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233685,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233683\/revisions\/2233685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}