{"id":547847,"date":"2026-01-31T16:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/547847\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:34:17","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-bobby-witt-jr-is-the-best-shortstop-in-baseball-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/547847\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Bobby Witt Jr. is the best shortstop in baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cNo. 1, yes, Bobby Witt Jr. He has emerged as one of the leading superstars in the sport,\u201d Kenny said. \u201cWhile the behemoths rule the coasts \u2014 that\u2019s Ohtani and Judge \u2014 Bobby Witt owns the Heartland. He followed up his breakout year by playing 157 games, slugging a robust .501. Stealing 38 bases, playing stellar defense. He was a whopping plus-20. Plus-20! In fielding (run value). I\u2019m throwing these absurd numbers out there. Plus-20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWitt is going into his age 26 season, and we now have two years of dominance. Best batting average, slugging, OPS+ at the position, and No. 1 defensively, as measured by the Statcast defensive metric, that\u2019s fielding run value. Put it all together in WAR, that\u2019s what No. 1 looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNo. 1, yes, Bobby Witt Jr. He has emerged as one of the leading superstars in the sport,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,38557],"class_list":{"0":"post-547847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-royals-rumblings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115990682982657285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547847","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=547847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}