We\u2019re trying a new series at Royals Review, a daily mid-day question of the day to hear about your opinions on a fun or pressing question affecting the Royals or baseball in general. Chime in and drop your answers below!<\/p>\n
Every team has a few players who feel this close to being difference-makers. For the Royals, that margin might be the line between hanging around .500 and actually contending. Development isn\u2019t linear, but some leaps matter more than others.<\/p>\n
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The Royals certainly have a few candidates for improvement this year. They tendered a contract to Jonathan India, expecting a bounce-back season. Rookie Jac Caglianone is looking to put a disappointing debut season behind him. Seth Lugo is in the first season of a multi-year deal and will hope to avoid the second-half swoon he had last year. And Cole Ragans had great strikeout numbers, but a poor ERA and he made just 13 starts.<\/p>\n
So for today\u2019s Royals Review Question of the Day: Which player do the Royals most need to improve in 2026, and why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re trying a new series at Royals Review, a daily mid-day question of the day to hear about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,2178,230,231,2161,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,137,18,2002,2122],"class_list":{"0":"post-554882","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-california","10":"tag-cole-ragans","11":"tag-jac-caglianone","12":"tag-jonathan-india","13":"tag-kansas","14":"tag-kansas-city","15":"tag-kansas-city-royals","16":"tag-kansascity","17":"tag-kansascityroyals","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-royals","20":"tag-san-diego","21":"tag-san-diego-padres","22":"tag-seth-lugo","23":"tag-the-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116014448996215755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554882","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=554882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}