{"id":2317327,"date":"2026-03-07T17:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2317327"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:04:37","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-the-world-baseball-classic-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kansas-city-royals-news-the-world-baseball-classic-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: The World Baseball Classic begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Previously relying on a five-pitch mix that leaned primarily on his four-seam fastball and sweeper, Black refined his repertoire this offseason. The adjustment, along with support from the Royals\u2019 pitching staff, has helped him settle into his new organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Black worked with assistant pitching coach Mike McFerran on his curveball release point, especially when facing left-handed hitters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThat\u2019s been a big help just getting into this organization, having the support staff around us here,\u201d Black said. \u201cJust [to] take the ball whenever they ask me to, whether that be starting, mid relief, short relief. I\u2019m good with whatever [I have to do] to go out there and try to throw zeros.\u201d<\/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>Previously relying on a five-pitch mix that leaned primarily on his four-seam fastball and sweeper, Black refined his repertoire this offseason. The adjustment, along with support from the Royals\u2019 pitching staff, has helped him settle into his new organization. Black worked with assistant pitching coach Mike McFerran on his curveball release point, especially when facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2317329,"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":[446937,340725],"class_list":["post-2317327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kansas-city-royals-news","tag-royals-rumblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Kansas-City-Royals-news-The-World-Baseball-Classic-begins.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317327","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=2317327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317330,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317327\/revisions\/2317330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}