{"id":2247967,"date":"2026-01-24T01:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2247967"},"modified":"2026-01-24T01:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:47:18","slug":"salvador-perez-question-about-new-kauffman-stadium-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/salvador-perez-question-about-new-kauffman-stadium-fences\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvador Perez question about new Kauffman Stadium fences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!----><!----><\/p>\n<figure\/><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!----><!--[--><!-- AiSummaryComponent.html --><!--]--><!----><!----><!----><!----><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>For a second straight season, Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/article314410295.html\">finished third<\/a> in the MLB Network\u2019s ranking of the Top 100 players in the game right now.<\/p>\n<p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear that Witt is one of the biggest stars in the game right now.<\/p>\n<p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Witt was interviewed on the MLB Network on Thursday night, and he talked about where he was ranked, the upcoming season and the fences being moved in at Kauffman Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino shared an X post with his thoughts on the changes to the dimensions at The K.<\/p>\n<p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/for-petes-sake\/article314304237.html\">it\u2019s cool the Royals<\/a> were willing to make these changes to make it more of a neutral ballpark,\u201d Pasquantino wrote.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Witt said the Royals hitters welcomed the change. And catcher Salvador Perez had a question.<\/p>\n<p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, a lot of the hitters are very happy, and the team\u2019s pitchers aren\u2019t,\u201d Witt said. \u201cBut they\u2019re gonna do well, no matter what. But yeah, the hitters are great. Salvy was just like, \u2018What took it so long?\u2019 But yeah, everyone is fired up. And so it\u2019s gonna be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s classic Salvy.<\/p>\n<p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Here is Witt\u2019s interview, and check out that graphic at the start.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!----><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"h2\">Former Royals disliked old dimensions<\/h2>\n<p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The X account Sleeper Royals shared a clip from last year\u2019s \u201cDiggin Deep\u201d podcast that showed former KC stars Alex Gordon, Mike Moustakas and Eric Hosmer discussing the dimensions at Kauffman Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><!----><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Gordon said he changed his approach at the plate because it was difficult to hit home runs. While playing, Gordon hoped the Royals would move in the fences. Alas, it never happened.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-infographic\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.7647058823529\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"9.4901960784314\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is Alex Gordon, Eric Hosmer, and Mike Moustakas talking about the dimensions at Kauffman on the Diggin\u2019 Deep Show over a year ago<\/p>\n<p>Makes you wonder what kind of damage these three would\u2019ve done with the new dimensions\ud83e\udee3 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zFbmLbSifX\">pic.twitter.com\/zFbmLbSifX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SleeperRoyals (@SleeperRoyals) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SleeperRoyals\/status\/2013644784586363179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><!----><!--]--><!--]--><!----><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published <span class=\"inline-block\">January 23, 2026 at 10:54 AM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!----><!----><\/p>\n<div class=\"zone grid\">\n<div class=\"related-stories story-module\">\n<h5>Related Stories from  Kansas City Star<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-module\" wp_automatic_readability=\"25.538461538462\">\n<div class=\"author-card \" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.1826923076923\">\n<div class=\"thumb\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/profile\/219036630\/\"><br \/>\n                        <br \/>\n                    <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"article-details\">\n<p>                <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/profile\/219036630\/\">Pete Grathoff<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <!-- Added as per FE-855 --><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"credit\">The Kansas City Star<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- Added as per FE-855 --><\/p>\n<p>                     <!-- End of class=\"social-media\" --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <span>From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997. <\/span>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\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.kansascity.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a second straight season, Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. finished third in the MLB Network\u2019s ranking of the Top 100 players in the game right now. It\u2019s clear that Witt is one of the biggest stars in the game right now. Witt was interviewed on the MLB Network on Thursday night, and he talked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2167928,"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":[91466,432333,43627,311235,77699],"class_list":["post-2247967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-fences","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kauffman-stadium","tag-salvador-perez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/See-photos-from-Royals-broadcaster-Denny-Matthews-wedding.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247967","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=2247967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247968,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247967\/revisions\/2247968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}