{"id":559870,"date":"2026-02-07T17:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559870\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:24:25","slug":"who-should-lead-off-for-the-royals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559870\/","title":{"rendered":"Who should lead off for the Royals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The leadoff man has to set the table for the big boppers who will drive him home. It\u2019s an important role for any team, but particularly important when you have one of the best hitters in baseball &#8211; Bobby Witt Jr. &#8211; as well as two other 100-RBI hitters in Salvador Perez and Vinnie Pasquantino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jonathan India served as the leadoff hitter most last year, but he had a disappointing season and lost that role when the team acquired Mike Yastrzemski. Do you trust him to rebound and bring his high walk rate to the leadoff role? What about a breakout hitter like Maikel Garcia? Or newly acquired outfielder Isaac Collins, who had a .368 OBA last year. Could you go with a rookie like Carter Jensen, known for solid walk rates in the minors? Hey, why can\u2019t Bobby lead off? He\u2019d get more plate appearances that way, and the more Bobby hits, the better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Who do you think should lead off for the Royals?<\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,72937],"class_list":{"0":"post-559870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-royals-review-question-of-the-day"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116030515725929917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559870","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=559870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}