After several months away, Bobby Witt Jr. and the Kansas City Royals are back in action as Spring Training gets underway in Surprise, Arizona.<\/p>\n
Last season, the team finished with an 82-80 record and missed the playoffs, after making the postseason in 2024 for the first time in nine years.<\/p>\n
Heading into the new season, many fans believe that the team has improved with the offseason additions of players like outfielder Isaac Collins and reliever Matt Strahm.<\/p>\n
MLB.com Royals beat reporter Anne Rogers told KCUR’s Up To Date on Monday that she thinks the Royals could still be in the mix come October.<\/p>\n
“I think they have a great chance of making the playoffs. They’re certainly after the division. Y’know the American League Central is kind of wide open, I think I would go with the (Detroit) Tigers for the division just because of their pitching,” Rogers said. “But, I think the Royals, they could make a run, absolutely.”<\/p>\n
The team will spend another month playing exhibition games in Arizona before beginning its regular season season on the road against the Atlanta Braves on March 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After several months away, Bobby Witt Jr. and the Kansas City Royals are back in action as Spring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":{"0":"post-589161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","10":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-playoffs","13":"tag-mlb-postseason"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589161","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=589161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}