{"id":2412696,"date":"2026-05-12T04:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2412696"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:04:57","slug":"kansas-city-royals-bobby-witt-jr-wins-al-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kansas-city-royals-bobby-witt-jr-wins-al-player-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals’ Bobby Witt Jr. Wins AL Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Kansas City Royals<\/a> have played well in recent action. Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has made a significant impact. Witt was named<\/a> the American League Player of the Week for this past week after the Royals star hit .407 to go along with a 1.263 WHIP. He also scored seven runs, hit three home runs, and recorded four RBIs and two stolen bases.<\/p>\n

Witt, 25, is one of the best players in the game of baseball. He is one of the most electric players in the sport. Witt is now hitting .302\/.372\/.475 across 41 games played. The shortstop has hit five home runs, 11 doubles and a triple this year as well. His 2.8 WAR currently leads the league.<\/p>\n

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Witt was an All-Star in 2024 and 2025. Additionally, Witt finished second in American League MVP voting in 2024 and fourth in 2025. Witt also earned a Gold Glove Award and Silver Slugger Award in each seasons.<\/p>\n

Witt is on track for a similar season in 2026. His home run production has declined a bit, but Witt could still end up reaching 30 homers this year. Even if he hits 25 or so long balls in 2026, he could have a tremendous overall year.<\/p>\n

In fact, Witt could end up earning his first MVP this season. The Royals are looking to compete and if Witt can help them reach the playoffs his chances will only increase.<\/p>\n

The Royals earned a 2-1 series win against the Detroit Tigers<\/a> in their most recent series. They won the first two contests of the series before the Tigers won on Sunday. Nevertheless, it was still a good series for a Kansas City<\/a> ball club that is trending in a promising direction.<\/p>\n

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At 19-22, Kansas City is now in fourth place in the American League Central standings. The team is only two games behind the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> for first place in the standings, however.<\/p>\n

Overall, they are 19-22 over their past 10 games.<\/p>\n

The Royals will play another American League Central rival this week in the Chicago White Sox<\/a>. It is a three-game series between the ball clubs. The White Sox are 19-21, so it should be three competitive games between the teams.<\/p>\n

The first contest of the series is scheduled for Tuesday night. First pitch is scheduled for 7:40 PM EST on Tuesday night as the Royals look to continue playing well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kansas City Royals have played well in recent action. Bobby Witt Jr. has made a significant impact. Witt was named the American League Player of the Week for this past week after the Royals star hit .407 to go along with a 1.263 WHIP. He also scored seven runs, hit three home runs, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2412697,"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":[359347,91466,316608,313221,345193,310650,43627,22091],"class_list":["post-2412696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-american-league","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-the-royals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kansas-City-Royals-Bobby-Witt-Jr-Wins-AL-Player-of.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412696","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=2412696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412698,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412696\/revisions\/2412698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}