{"id":2482517,"date":"2026-06-30T20:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2482517"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:54:48","slug":"jac-caglianones-heater-is-a-welcome-sight-for-the-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jac-caglianones-heater-is-a-welcome-sight-for-the-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Jac Caglianone’s Heater Is a Welcome Sight for the Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To put his aforementioned June heater in perspective, his 1.080 OPS and 193 wRC+ rank fourth in MLB. From a run production standpoint, his nine homers this month trail only Colorado\u2019s Hunter Goodman (13), Washington\u2019s Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. (11), and Chicago\u2019s Pete Crow-Armstrong (10).<\/p>\n

Looking even further at his underlying metrics in 2026, June has just been an example of how Caglianone must be considered one of the league\u2019s most feared hitters with out-of-this-world quality of contact and expected metrics.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Stat Type<\/strong><\/td>\n2026 Result<\/strong><\/td>\n2026 MLB Percentile Ranking<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hard-Hit %<\/td>\n58.4%<\/td>\n99th percentile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barrel %<\/td>\n16.9%<\/td>\n95th percentile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AVG Exit Velocity<\/td>\n94.0 mph<\/td>\n97th percentile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bat Speed<\/td>\n77.1 mph<\/td>\n96th percentile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LA Sweet Spot %<\/td>\n38.8%<\/td>\n87th percentile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
xBA<\/td>\n.278<\/td>\n83rd percentile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
xSLG<\/td>\n.527<\/td>\n94th percentile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
xwOBA<\/td>\n.376<\/td>\n92nd percentile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>
Jac Caglianone\u2019s 2026 Quality of Contact and Expected Metrics, per Baseball Savant<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, what this means for the Royals in particular is that perhaps they\u2019ve found the Robin to Witt\u2019s Batman in the lineup. <\/p>\n

Maikel Garcia may\u2019ve been that guy entering the year and is still a wizard defensively at third base, but he looks far from the All-Star and Silver Slugger he was in 2025. He\u2019s sporting just a .693 OPS and 91 wRC+ this season. While his lingering hand injury may be a reason for this, he\u2019s still reverted somewhat back to his unenthusiastic pre-2025 form.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Vinnie Pasquantino, who, to his credit, did find a way to raise his game after a putrid start before hitting the IL. However, the fact remains that he still sits at an 81 wRC+, with familiar injury concerns resurfacing after he broke his hamate bone earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Salvador Perez, who hasn\u2019t just declined in his twilight years \u2014 he\u2019s plummeted violently<\/a>. While still the captain and a respected clubhouse leader, he looks far from a starting-caliber catcher at this stage of his career.<\/p>\n

In 327 plate appearances this season, Perez is slashing just .200\/.242\/.331 with a 52 wRC+. He still offers some power, with 10 home runs and 30 RBIs, but the passing of the torch to Carter Jensen may already be well underway.<\/p>\n

With so much inconsistency in the middle of the order \u2014 and Jensen taking over at the top \u2014 the Royals need stability behind Bobby Witt Jr. in the two-hole. Caglianone\u2019s recent hot streak may be a sign that he can be that guy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.justbaseball.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To put his aforementioned June heater in perspective, his 1.080 OPS and 193 wRC+ rank fourth in MLB. From a run production standpoint, his nine homers this month trail only Colorado\u2019s Hunter Goodman (13), Washington\u2019s Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. (11), and Chicago\u2019s Pete Crow-Armstrong (10). Looking even further at his underlying metrics in 2026, June has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2482518,"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-2482517","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\/06\/Jac-Caglianones-Heater-Is-a-Welcome-Sight-for-the-Royals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482517","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=2482517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482519,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482517\/revisions\/2482519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2482518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}