{"id":2328033,"date":"2026-03-14T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2328033"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:22:10","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-will-the-royals-be-drinking-espressos-after-home-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kansas-city-royals-news-will-the-royals-be-drinking-espressos-after-home-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Will the Royals be drinking espressos after home runs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">If Massey is healthy enough to make the team, there\u2019s just one spot really up for grabs here. Loftin has been a standout this spring, from his .308\/.400\/.654 slash line to getting a ton of defensive work all over the field, including a lot of first base in case he\u2019s needed as a backup there. Plus, he\u2019s a right-handed bat that could be useful against lefty starters or late in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">There are others still competing for the lone spot, though. Tyler Tolbert brings a speed component to the table. The Royals could go with a more experienced bat for pinch-hit opportunities, like Rojas or Abraham Toro. If Massey isn\u2019t healthy, there\u2019s another spot for any of those players.<\/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>If Massey is healthy enough to make the team, there\u2019s just one spot really up for grabs here. Loftin has been a standout this spring, from his .308\/.400\/.654 slash line to getting a ton of defensive work all over the field, including a lot of first base in case he\u2019s needed as a backup there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2328034,"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-2328033","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-Will-the-Royals-be-drinking-espressos.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328033","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=2328033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328035,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328033\/revisions\/2328035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}