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The Kansas City Royals are hoping for a big 2026 season<\/a>. Kansas City\u2019s second baseman Michael Massey is one of the players the team is looking to for production. Massey is dealing with an injury<\/a> during spring training<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cRoyals<\/span> second baseman Michael Massey has a \u201clow-grade\u201d calf strain, manager Matt Quatraro said this morning. Tweaked it on a play vs. the Dodgers on Friday and didn’t get better, so they got it checked out. He’ll be out of game action for \u201chopefully just about a week,\u201d MLB.com reporter Anne Rogers posted to X, formerly Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n Massey has collected 22 at-bats in spring training for the Royals. He has one home run and three RBIs. During the 2025 regular season, the infielder posted a .244 batting average for Kansas City.<\/p>\n The Royals missed the 2025 postseason<\/a>. Kansas City finished the year with a 82-80 record.<\/p>\n Massey is a young player with a lot of upside<\/a>. He has 36 career home runs and 137 RBIs. He had battled through injuries in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n This offseason the Royals infielder did a deep dive into his hitting technique, in order to improve his swing. He even studied scientific fields like physics to examine what he was doing wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cNothing is right, nothing is wrong: Everything is on the table,\u201d Massey said, per MLB.com. \u201cLook at it from an objective view, and with the experience I\u2019ve had in my career up to this point, let\u2019s put the pieces back together.\u201d<\/p>\n The Royals infielder says using science to examine his swing has helped him keep an open mind about his performance.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought that was interesting because it takes out the bias of someone who\u2019s been in the game for a long time,\u201d Massey said. \u201cThere\u2019s really no denying it: How the object moves through space is how the object moves through space. Trying to learn that and then use my baseball experience to interpret it is what I tried to do.\u201d<\/p>\n The Royals play a spring training game on Tuesday against the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nMichael Massey is looking for a breakout season in 2026 with the Royals<\/strong><\/h2>\n