{"id":2511841,"date":"2026-07-22T01:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2511841"},"modified":"2026-07-22T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:22:12","slug":"royals-announce-decision-after-unfortunate-bobby-witt-jr-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-announce-decision-after-unfortunate-bobby-witt-jr-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Announce Decision After Unfortunate Bobby Witt Jr. News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> are heading toward being sellers at this year&#8217;s trade deadline regardless of how they perform over the next two weeks. This season has been a disaster due to a mix of both underperformance and injuries throughout the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the chaos in Kansas City, one constant has remained, and that is the play of shortstop <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/bobby-witt-jr\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> Now in his fifth season with the Royals, the 26-year-old has solidified himself as the best all-around player in the league. <\/p>\n<p>He currently leads the American League in WAR at 4.9, a reflection of how excellent he is defensively and on the basepaths. <\/p>\n<p>In the batter&#8217;s box he has continued to deliver, posting a .279 batting average, .350 on-base percentage, .800 OPS, 13 home runs and 39 RBIs.<\/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>The Kansas City Royals are heading toward being sellers at this year&#8217;s trade deadline regardless of how they perform over the next two weeks. This season has been a disaster due to a mix of both underperformance and injuries throughout the roster. Despite the chaos in Kansas City, one constant has remained, and that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2511842,"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-2511841","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\/Royals-Announce-Decision-After-Unfortunate-Bobby-Witt-Jr-News.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511841","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=2511841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511843,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511841\/revisions\/2511843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}