{"id":2511882,"date":"2026-07-22T02:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2511882"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:33:47","slug":"fort-d-alum-wickersham-signs-with-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fort-d-alum-wickersham-signs-with-kansas-city-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort D alum Wickersham signs with Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/kansas-city\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Kansas City Royals;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Kansas City Royals&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">The Kansas City Royals<\/a> have officially signed one of the top prep baseball players in the Lowcountry and you can take that to the bank, or should I say Banks.<\/p>\n<p>After being selected by KC in the 14th round of the MLB draft last weekend, Fort Dorchester alum Banks Wickersham signed with the royals on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Wickersham hit over 500 this past season for the Patriots while playing primarily shortstop or pitching. The Royals drafted Banks as a catcher.<\/p>\n<p>Having signed with KC, Wickersham will forgo his college commitment to The College.<\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counton2.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WCBD News 2.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WCBD News 2.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WCBD News 2. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\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 sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MT. PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) \u2013 The Kansas City Royals have officially signed one of the top prep baseball players in the Lowcountry and you can take that to the bank, or should I say Banks. After being selected by KC in the 14th round of the MLB draft last weekend, Fort Dorchester alum Banks Wickersham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2511883,"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":[495569,402966,495571,391128,495570],"class_list":["post-2511882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-banks-wickersham","tag-the-kansas-city-royals","tag-the-patriots","tag-wcbd","tag-wickersham"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fort-D-alum-Wickersham-signs-with-Kansas-City-Royals.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511882","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=2511882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511884,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511882\/revisions\/2511884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}