2016 Maple Grove high school graduate Isaac Collins is now an outfielder for the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n
After finishing 4th in National League Rookie of the Year voting, the Milwaukee Brewers traded him to K.C. in December.<\/p>\n
Our Darren \u2018Doogie\u2019 Wolfson caught up with Collins this week to hear all about his transition to the Royals.<\/p>\n
***Click the video box above to watch our conversation with Collins***<\/p>\n
After playing collegiately for Creighton, Collins was a 9th-round draft pick by the Rockies in 2019. He was then picked up by the Brewers in 2022 in the minor league portion of the Rule 5 Draft, eventually making his major league debut September 2024.<\/p>\n
Then, after a successful spring training last March, made the Brewers Opening Day roster. He produced a 2025 slash line of .263\/.368\/.411 with nine home runs and 54 runs batted in. Perhaps his most memorable long ball was a walk-off against elite closer Edwin Diaz, now a Dodger and last year a Met.<\/p>\n
He excepts to play left and right field for Kansas City.<\/p>\n
Collins was also an exceptional football player for Maple Grove.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Isaac Collins<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Kansas City Royals<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Maple Grove Crimson<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Sports Features<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2016 Maple Grove high school graduate Isaac Collins is now an outfielder for the Kansas City Royals. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,4362,936,2123,55,2596,2595,75185,4,252,35901],"class_list":["post-571424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-isaac-collins","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-maple-grove-crimson","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-sports-features"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116066825267381047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571424","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=571424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}