{"id":513932,"date":"2026-01-10T21:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/513932\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:33:19","slug":"k-c-royals-to-miss-north-k-c-ballpark-commitment-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/513932\/","title":{"rendered":"K.C. Royals to miss North K.C. ballpark commitment deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Clay County Western Commissioner Jason Withington said that a deadline for the Royals to commit to North K.C. for a new ballpark \u201cwas expected to lapse\u201d on Thursday, \u201cpotentially damaging the prospects\u201d of a ballpark deal in the area, according to Bayless &amp; McDowell of the K.C. STAR. Withington said that the \u201ccounty gave the Royals a Thursday deadline to have a deal worked out ahead of a planned April 2026 vote\u201d on a potential future ballpark. Withington: \u201cI\u2019m done. Everybody else (on the commission) can make up their own mind what they want to do. For me, I\u2019m just done dealing with it. We have other issues that we need to be focused on.\u201d He made clear that he was \u201conly speaking for himself &#8212; not all the county commissioners.\u201d Withington said that \u201cClay County officials had wanted a Royals stadium-funding measure on the November 2025 ballot, but the Royals had rejected that idea.\u201d In the wake of those discussions, Withington said that \u201cthe team told officials they preferred the April 2026 ballot at the earliest.\u201d He added that the county \u201cgave the team a Jan. 8 deadline to get a deal worked out before preparing items for the ballot.\u201d In a post on his Facebook page, Withington said that the Royals have \u201cnow told us they aren\u2019t ready for that either\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/article314252647.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/article314252647.html\">K.C. STAR, 1\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clay County Western Commissioner Jason Withington said that a deadline for the Royals to commit to North K.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-513932","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-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115872950298570944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513932","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=513932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}