{"id":2407434,"date":"2026-05-08T10:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2407434"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:38:32","slug":"slick-fielding-tyriq-kemp-shows-more-bat-than-expected-for-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/slick-fielding-tyriq-kemp-shows-more-bat-than-expected-for-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Slick-Fielding Tyriq Kemp Shows More Bat Than Expected For Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Royals regarded Tyriq Kemp<\/strong> as a glove-first shortstop when they drafted him in the sixth round last year out of Baylor.<\/p>\n

Now, Kemp\u2019s performance through the first month of this season at High-A Quad Cities indicates that the 23-year-old lefthanded batter might have more hit tool than expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Through 22 games, he batted .300\/.424\/.514 with four home runs and eight stolen bases. The Midwest League power production was notable in that Kemp topped out at seven homers as a college senior and because he is listed at 5-foot-7, 156 pounds. <\/p>\n

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The Royals say that his power uptick is more a case of Kemp becoming more comfortable with the pro game than any mechanical changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s adjusted and kind of fine-tuned what his approach is at the plate,\u201d Royals farm director said Mitch Maier<\/strong> said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kemp has consistently walked as often as he has struck out throughout his career, attributing that skill to the approach he has maintained throughout his baseball life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m honestly not even thinking about striking out,\u201d Kemp said. \u201c. . . My hand-eye coordination is good enough to put the ball in play on strikes and lay off pitches that are balls. It\u2019s not really something I practice. It\u2019s just something I\u2019m good at.\u201d<\/p>\n

It helps that Kemp grew up around the game in the Netherlands. His father Adonis<\/strong> played 15 seasons in the Dutch major league and participated in the 1996 Olympics. His older brother Dwayne<\/strong> played two years in the Cubs organization and is still active in the Netherlands at age 38.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kemp also played in multiple world tournaments, including winning gold medals at the 2018 European Baseball Championship with his country\u2019s U18 team and again in 2021 with the U23 team.<\/p>\n

He credits his brother with helping him the most in his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a pro ballplayer as well,\u201d Kemp said, \u201cso he kind of prepared me, gave me some information on how it\u2019s going to look . . . He\u2019s like my mental coach and also my coach with baseball in general.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\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.baseballamerica.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Royals regarded Tyriq Kemp as a glove-first shortstop when they drafted him in the sixth round last year out of Baylor. Now, Kemp\u2019s performance through the first month of this season at High-A Quad Cities indicates that the 23-year-old lefthanded batter might have more hit tool than expected.\u00a0 Through 22 games, he batted .300\/.424\/.514 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2040674,"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":[377621],"class_list":["post-2407434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-organization-reports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Royals-2025-Minor-League-Player-Of-The-Year-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407434","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=2407434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407435,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407434\/revisions\/2407435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}