{"id":528223,"date":"2026-01-19T21:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/528223\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:50:16","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-honoring-the-legacy-of-martin-luther-king-jr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/528223\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In May 2025, India was spiked on his knee by Willson Contreras. A month later, he suffered a shoulder injury making a diving play. Finally, in September, India landed on the injured list with a wrist injury. That shoulder injury is where we should focus the most, as it seemed to have a clear impact the remainder of India\u2019s season. Take the below splits into account:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">3\/27\/2025-6\/12\/2025: .252\/.336\/.340, 88.9 EV, 83.7% Contact%, 41.4% Swing%, 19.8% LD%<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">6\/14\/2025-9\/30\/2025: .219\/.315\/.355, 86.9 EV, 81.2% Contact%, 38.9% Swing%, 13.9% LD%<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">India was a completely different hitter after the shoulder injury. He didn\u2019t miss any real time or land on the injured list, but it begs the question: was India hampered by the shoulder injury for much of 2025? The Royals are banking on a bounceback from India in 2026 and they\u2019ll need it to find any value at second base. Perhaps playing fewer positions and getting back to the basics will help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In May 2025, India was spiked on his knee by Willson Contreras. A month later, he suffered a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,38557],"class_list":{"0":"post-528223","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","16":"tag-royals-rumblings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115923977889269965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528223","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=528223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}