{"id":2246379,"date":"2026-01-23T00:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2246379"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:20:12","slug":"kauffmans-new-dimensions-will-win-bobby-witt-jr-an-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kauffmans-new-dimensions-will-win-bobby-witt-jr-an-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kauffman’s New Dimensions Will Win Bobby Witt Jr. an MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to renderings provided by the Royals, we can get an idea of the significance of these changes. Both foul poles will be moved inward nine feet, which should allow for some big offensive improvements itself. The left field and right field walls will follow suit, as they\u2019ll also move in nine feet apiece.<\/p>\n

Left-center and right-center are where things change more drastically. Both of these walls will be moved by 10 feet, which could have tremendous implications for homers in Kauffman Stadium. The only area untouched is straightaway center field, which will remain at 410 feet, the third-longest point in the sport.<\/p>\n

The wall height is also being adjusted, with most areas in the park shrinking from 10 feet to eight and a half feet.<\/p>\n

While these changes will undoubtedly improve the number of home runs hit at Kauffman Stadium, the fear is that they\u2019ll have a more negative impact on the pitching staff. According to the Royals GM J.J. Picollo, this won\u2019t be the case. <\/p>\n

When asked about the changes, Picollo said<\/a>, \u201cOur goal here isn\u2019t to have an offensive ballpark, it\u2019s to have a very fair ballpark. We don\u2019t want it to turn into a bandbox, and every ball up in the air turns into a home run. We just want hitters to be rewarded when they hit the ball well, particularly in the gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

With this move, the organization is aiming to strike a fair balance between offense and defense without fundamentally altering the park\u2019s identity. If this works to their favor, many hitters will be heavily rewarded for their best contact, including but not limited to superstar Bobby Witt Jr.<\/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":"

According to renderings provided by the Royals, we can get an idea of the significance of these changes. Both foul poles will be moved inward nine feet, which should allow for some big offensive improvements itself. The left field and right field walls will follow suit, as they\u2019ll also move in nine feet apiece. Left-center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2246380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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-2246379","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\/Kauffmans-New-Dimensions-Will-Win-Bobby-Witt-Jr-an-MVP.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246379","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=2246379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246381,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246379\/revisions\/2246381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}