{"id":2264117,"date":"2026-02-03T04:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2264117"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:02:25","slug":"vinnie-pasquantinos-message-for-kansas-city-royals-before-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/vinnie-pasquantinos-message-for-kansas-city-royals-before-mlb-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinnie Pasquantino’s Message for Kansas City Royals Before MLB Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First baseman Vinnie Pasquantino is entering the 2026 MLB season with a clear message for the Kansas City Royals<\/a> and their fans. After putting together the best full season of his career in 2025, Pasquantino is speaking candidly about expectations for the team in a year when the Royals believe they have the pieces to compete in a tough American League.<\/p>\n

His leadership, production and durability have made him one of the most important bats in the Kansas City lineup, and his words reflect a strong desire to turn potential into results.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLast year was a failure,\u201d Pasquantino said, according to MLB.com\u2019s Anne Rogers<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to be better than that. We know that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of guys on multiyear deals, deals past their free agency, veterans \u2013 this team is built to win. We need to do that. That\u2019s the expectation, that\u2019s the standard, and it\u2019s going to start here in a few days knowing that is this team. We are built for the playoffs. We got to go do it. There is no other option, really, because that\u2019s what we got to do. This team was built to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pasquantino\u2019s 2025 season was a breakout by any measure. He played 160 games, the most of his career, and finished with a .264 batting average, .323 on\u2011base percentage, .798 OPS, 32 home runs and 113 RBIs, ranking among the American League leaders in homers and RBIs.<\/p>\n

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Those numbers were especially impressive considering his injury history early in his career. Pasquantino missed significant time in both 2023 and 2024 due to injuries, but stayed healthy for the full 2025 campaign, giving the Royals a consistent middle\u2011of\u2011the\u2011order presence that Kansas City had lacked in previous seasons.<\/p>\n

Despite Pasquantino\u2019s offensive success, the Royals as a team fell short of postseason goals in 2025. Kansas City finished with a winning record but failed to secure a playoff spot, leaving many within the organization wanting more. Pasquantino\u2019s assessment of last year\u2019s results captures that sentiment and sets the tone for the clubhouse entering Spring Training.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to 2026, the Royals hope that continuity and internal improvement will be key. With core players like Pasquantino, Bobby Witt Jr., Salvador Perez and Maikel Garcia all under contract, Kansas City has a roster that should be capable of competing for a wild card berth if the offense improves. Pasquantino is expected to remain one of the team\u2019s top offensive contributors.<\/p>\n

For now, Pasquantino\u2019s message is clear: the Royals have the talent, they know the standard and anything less than a push toward October baseball will be unacceptable in 2026.<\/p>\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 sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First baseman Vinnie Pasquantino is entering the 2026 MLB season with a clear message for the Kansas City Royals and their fans. After putting together the best full season of his career in 2025, Pasquantino is speaking candidly about expectations for the team in a year when the Royals believe they have the pieces to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2264118,"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":[359347,360833,91466,310650,43627,313842,265640,77699,22091,102808],"class_list":["post-2264117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-american-league","tag-anne-rogers","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-pasquantino","tag-salvador-perez","tag-the-royals","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Vinnie-Pasquantinos-Message-for-Kansas-City-Royals-Before-MLB-Season.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264117","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=2264117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264119,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264117\/revisions\/2264119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}