{"id":2496074,"date":"2026-07-10T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2496074"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:00:54","slug":"vinnie-pasquantino-aiming-to-return-to-struggling-royals-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/vinnie-pasquantino-aiming-to-return-to-struggling-royals-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinnie Pasquantino aiming to return to struggling Royals on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After making a run to the ALDS just two seasons ago, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/kansas_city_royals\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> have not been able to capitalize off any of the momentum from that magical 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2026 season running out of time, a potential returning bat to the lineup may be the final hope of turning a disappointing season around.<\/p>\n<h2>Vinnie Pasquantino aiming to return from IL<\/h2>\n<p>According to Royals manager Matt Quataro, first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino is aiming to return to the Kansas City lineup on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pasquantino has been out of action since June 14 with a right hamate fracture. He has one more rehab start at Triple-A Omaha on Thursday before a final decision will be made prior to Friday&#8217;s series opener against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/baltimore_orioles\/3\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><\/p>\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.yardbarker.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After making a run to the ALDS just two seasons ago, the Kansas City Royals have not been able to capitalize off any of the momentum from that magical 2024 season. With the 2026 season running out of time, a potential returning bat to the lineup may be the final hope of turning a disappointing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2496075,"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-2496074","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\/07\/Vinnie-Pasquantino-aiming-to-return-to-struggling-Royals-on-Friday.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496074","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=2496074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496076,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496074\/revisions\/2496076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}