Mar 11, 2026; Houston, TX, United States; Italy right fielder Jac Caglianone (14) celebrates his run against Mexico in the fifth inning at Daikin Park. Mandatory Credit: Thomas Shea-Imagn Images | Thomas Shea-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n
“Caglianone mightily struggled to adjust to major-league pitching in his 62-game debut last year. But the power that led to him being a first-round pick and a highly-touted prospect is all still there,” Thosar wrote. “He\u2019s projected for 20-plus home runs this season and his droolworthy hard-hit rate has made Caglianone everyone\u2019s top breakout candidate of the year.”<\/p>\n
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Caglianone struggled to adjust to big league stars last year, but now that he’s gotten acclimated a bit to the highest level, he could be headed for a breakout year.<\/p>\n
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With Caglianone’s top exit velocity ranking near the top of the league, he could be in position to hit 20 or 25 home runs this year. When Caglianone reaches his peak, whenever that may be, he could be one of the top power hitters in the entire league. Either way, he’s somebody to keep an eye on this season in Kansas City.<\/p>\n
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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.si.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Royals are coming into the season with a lot of high hopes. They have a few players who put together dominant performances during the World Baseball Classic. Maikel Garcia was one of the more pivotal players for Team Venezuela in their run to the title. Jac Caglianone and Vinnie Pasquantino lit the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2348692,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2348691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Royals-23-Year-Old-Phenom-Poised-for-Major-Breakout-Season.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348691","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=2348691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348693,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348691\/revisions\/2348693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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