{"id":610600,"date":"2026-03-06T22:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/610600\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:57:28","slug":"kansas-city-royals-announce-former-star-eric-hosmer-to-join-broadcast-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/610600\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals announce former star Eric Hosmer to join broadcast booth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 The Kansas City Royals announced Friday that 2015 World Series champion Eric Hosmer will join the broadcast team and serve as an analyst on Royals.TV.<\/p>\n<p>His first game will be next Friday, March 13, when the Royals take on the Diamondbacks at 8:05 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p>Hosmer is the second new addition to the Royals.TV crew for 2026, along with Bridget Howard.<\/p>\n<p>They join the crew that returns all of its members from last season, including Ryan Lefebvre and Jake Eisenberg on play-by-play, analyst Rex Hudler and Jeremy Guthrie. Joel Goldberg and Royals Hall of Famer Jeff Montgomery will continue to host the pre and postgame shows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hoz is a Royals legend and World Champion who connected with our fans on and off the field, and we&#8217;re honored to have him back,&#8221; Royals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager J.J. Picollo said Friday in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Hosmer competed over a 13-year career in Major League Baseball, including seven seasons with the Royals from 2011-2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was 18 years old when this organization believed in me, and now I get to repay that belief from a different seat,&#8221; Hosmer said Friday. &#8220;The guys on this roster are building their own story, and we all know what happens when this city believes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 The Kansas City Royals announced Friday that 2015 World Series champion Eric Hosmer will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,79244,882,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,185],"class_list":["post-610600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-broadcast-team","tag-eric-hosmer","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116184707762396128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610600","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=610600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}