{"id":2284512,"date":"2026-02-16T19:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2284512"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:20:41","slug":"what-would-a-successful-2026-season-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-would-a-successful-2026-season-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What would a successful 2026 season look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Royals had made moves to contend in 2014, but still, their postseason run had a \u201cwe\u2019re just happy to be here\u201d feel, where every day the team was playing with house money. They parlayed that attitude into a pennant, falling just short of winning one of the most improbable championships in modern baseball history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2024 Royals had a more improbable postseason appearance, after improving by 30 wins that season. They had a remarkable sweep over the Orioles in the Wild Card round, but the clock struck midnight in the ALDS against the Yankees. Still, most everyone saw it as an extraordinarily successful season after losing 106 games the year before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But expectations change, and the definition of \u201csuccess\u201d changes with it. The Royals have established they are no longer a cellar-dwelling team, but can they go from being in baseball\u2019s middle class to reaching the penthouse?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What would you consider a successful 2026 season?<\/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 www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royals had made moves to contend in 2014, but still, their postseason run had a \u201cwe\u2019re just happy to be here\u201d feel, where every day the team was playing with house money. They parlayed that attitude into a pennant, falling just short of winning one of the most improbable championships in modern baseball history. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2284513,"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":[439384],"class_list":["post-2284512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-royals-review-question-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/What-would-a-successful-2026-season-look-like.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284512","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=2284512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284514,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284512\/revisions\/2284514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}