{"id":181553,"date":"2025-07-16T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/181553\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:17:10","slug":"hunter-ensley-signs-free-agent-deal-with-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/181553\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Ensley signs free agent deal with Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) &#8211; The wait was worth it for Hunter Ensley. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Tennessee native and Volunteer baseball great has signed an undrafted free agent deal with the Kansas City Royals to begin his professional baseball career.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/page\/wvlt-news-and-weather-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"wvlt\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752704230_913_EAFJZDKWSJFMFGBA5C5FOEW7NM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ensley turned in one of the great careers in Tennessee history, ranking in the top ten in the history of the program in games played with 205.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Huntington native finished his career with a .303 batting average, 29 home runs, and 141 RBI. He earned All-Region and second team All-SEC honors in his final season on Rocky Top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ensley joins a Kansas City organization that features two of his Tennessee teammates from the 2024 national championship team. Drew Beam is with High-A Quad Cities and AJ Causey is in Double-A for the Northwest Arkansas Naturals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WVLT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) &#8211; The wait was worth it for Hunter Ensley. The Tennessee native and Volunteer baseball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,33541,33543,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,33542,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-181553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dougkas-ladd","10":"tag-fairfield-police","11":"tag-kansas","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-royals","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascityroyals","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-police-chase","18":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114865232555203514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}