{"id":2311640,"date":"2026-03-04T06:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2311640"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:07:40","slug":"the-kc-royals-have-a-global-roster-heres-where-your-favorite-players-are-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-kc-royals-have-a-global-roster-heres-where-your-favorite-players-are-from\/","title":{"rendered":"The KC Royals have a global roster. Here\u2019s where your favorite players are from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Kansas City Royals will begin the 2026 season later this month. On March 27, the Royals will face the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>That opening series will feature plenty of familiar faces including Bobby Witt Jr., Salvador Perez, Cole Ragans and Michael Wacha. It will be a special time for many players, who will represent not only Kansas City but their home state or country.<\/p>\n<p>So where are your favorite Royals from? The Star explored the active roster to provide an overall look at each player\u2019s birthplace, from KCMO to Valencia, Venezuela.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"lightbox-btn\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"lightbox-expand\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Image Lightbox\" class=\"lightbox-overlay\" aria-modal=\"true\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"content-figure\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"917\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/wZbCu6EJgIWHPki4xkF0bg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTkxNztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kansas_city_star_mcclatchy_articles_677\/feb12755c650837f2133f4de7b0819cb\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"lightbox-btn\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"lightbox-expand\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Image Lightbox\" class=\"lightbox-overlay\" aria-modal=\"true\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"content-figure\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"2627\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/tmXmwqJREJ9j1maBidkUnA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTI2Mjc7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kansas_city_star_mcclatchy_articles_677\/e56d8ca2c2675c28b68ba58243b15c9e\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"lightbox-btn\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"lightbox-expand\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Image Lightbox\" class=\"lightbox-overlay\" aria-modal=\"true\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\"\/><\/figure>\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 ca.sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals will begin the 2026 season later this month. On March 27, the Royals will face the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park in Atlanta. That opening series will feature plenty of familiar faces including Bobby Witt Jr., Salvador Perez, Cole Ragans and Michael Wacha. It will be a special time for many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2311642,"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":[447889,344503,91466,311239,333976,310650,311237,77699,402966,22091],"class_list":["post-2311640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-active-roster","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-cole-ragans","tag-familiar-faces","tag-kansas-city","tag-michael-wacha","tag-salvador-perez","tag-the-kansas-city-royals","tag-the-royals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-KC-Royals-have-a-global-roster-Heres-where-your.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311640","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=2311640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311643,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311640\/revisions\/2311643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}