{"id":2259520,"date":"2026-01-31T09:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2259520"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:37:27","slug":"vinnie-pasquantino-signs-2-year-contract-with-royals-team-announced-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/vinnie-pasquantino-signs-2-year-contract-with-royals-team-announced-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinnie Pasquantino signs 2-year contract with Royals, team announced Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 The Kansas City Royals announced Friday they signed first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino, one of the team&#8217;s top players and a fan favorite, to a two-year contract through the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>The contract covers 2026 as well as what would have been Pasquantino&#8217;s second year of arbitration, according to the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Pasquantino had the best year of his career in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>He played in 160 games, the most ever for Pasquantino in a season, and also had career bests in home runs (32), RBIs (113), doubles (33), and runs scored (72).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVinnie is a premier run producer, a huge part of our team and someone our fans have really connected with,\u201d stated Royals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager J.J. Picollo in a news release. \u201cWe\u2019re proud of the player he\u2019s become, and that he\u2019s earned this contract. We are happy as an organization and for Vinnie personally to have stability moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has hit 70 home runs and has tallied 262 runs batted in since his first game with the Royals on June 28, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals said that Pasquantino remains under club control through 2028.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n        appId : '1557642287829215',\n    xfbml : true,\n    version : 'v2.9'\n    });\n    };\n    (function(d, s, id){\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n    js.async = true;\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/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.kshb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 The Kansas City Royals announced Friday they signed first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino, one of the team&#8217;s top players and a fan favorite, to a two-year contract through the 2027 season. 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