The Royals player development social media account has announced the promotions of former first-round draft selections Jac Caglianone and Frank Mozzicato to Omaha and Northwest Arkansas, respectively.<\/p>\n
Caglianone will be of the most interest to Royals fans. After an absolutely fantastic Spring Training, Jac didn\u2019t miss a beat when he was assigned to Northwest Arkansas. He ends his time there with 43 RBIs in only 38 games. He also slashed .322\/.394\/.553\/.947 while hitting nine home runs. Of particular concern to many were his swinging strike rate and strikeout percentage. Before Sunday\u2019s action, they were a very reasonable 12.4% and 21.2% respectively. That strikeout rate was seventh-best in all of AA.<\/p>\n
Mozzicato was dominating high-A in his fourth professional season after being drafted out of high school in 2021. He had a 1.24 ERA for the River Bandits and struck out more than a batter per inning, though his walk rate was somewhat high with 22 in 36.1 innings.<\/p>\n
Many fans wanted Caglianone to break camp with the big league club, but the Royals are taking things somewhat slower. Not that much slower, as it has been less than a year since he was drafted, and he\u2019s already changed positions to play some right field and will now be only one step away from the big league roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals player development social media account has announced the promotions of former first-round draft selections Jac Caglianone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,10840,9147,181,10253,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,3315,13174,254,252,4192,417],"class_list":{"0":"post-37589","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-caglianone","10":"tag-earns","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-jac","13":"tag-kansas","14":"tag-kansas-city","15":"tag-kansas-city-royals","16":"tag-kansascity","17":"tag-kansascityroyals","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-omaha","20":"tag-promotion","21":"tag-review","22":"tag-royals","23":"tag-royals-minor-leagues-prospects","24":"tag-to"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37589","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=37589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}