{"id":2267000,"date":"2026-02-04T21:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2267000"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:45:04","slug":"which-player-do-the-royals-need-to-improve-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/which-player-do-the-royals-need-to-improve-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Which player do the Royals need to improve the most?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\"><em>We\u2019re trying a new series at Royals Review, a daily mid-day question of the day to hear about your opinions on a fun or pressing question affecting the Royals or baseball in general. Chime in and drop your answers below!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Every team has a few players who feel <em>this close<\/em> to being difference-makers. For the Royals, that margin might be the line between hanging around .500 and actually contending. Development isn\u2019t linear, but some leaps matter more than others.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Royals certainly have a few candidates for improvement this year. They tendered a contract to Jonathan India, expecting a bounce-back season. Rookie Jac Caglianone is looking to put a disappointing debut season behind him. Seth Lugo is in the first season of a multi-year deal and will hope to avoid the second-half swoon he had last year. And Cole Ragans had great strikeout numbers, but a poor ERA and he made just 13 starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So for today\u2019s Royals Review Question of the Day: Which player do the Royals most need to improve in 2026, and why?<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re trying a new series at Royals Review, a daily mid-day question of the day to hear about your opinions on a fun or pressing question affecting the Royals or baseball in general. Chime in and drop your answers below! Every team has a few players who feel this close to being difference-makers. For the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2267001,"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":[22691,311239,279830,313841,43627,335507,347943,244474,22091],"class_list":["post-2267000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-california","tag-cole-ragans","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-seth-lugo","tag-the-royals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Which-player-do-the-Royals-need-to-improve-the-most.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267000","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=2267000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267002,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267000\/revisions\/2267002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2267001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}