{"id":622535,"date":"2026-03-14T00:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/622535\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:12:26","slug":"royals-reacts-results-who-should-start-in-left-field-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/622535\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Reacts Results: Who should start in left field?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year, we ask questions of the most plugged-in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalsreview.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Royals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kansas City Royals&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Royals<\/a>\u00a0fans and fans across the country.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/0DWS6R\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sign up here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Earlier this week, we asked Royals fans who they wanted to be the Opening Day left fielder with a bevy of options after the guy most of us have assumed would be the guy heading into Spring Training. It turns out, Royals fans haven\u2019t changed their minds.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Poll results showing a majority of Royals fans would prefer Isaac Collins be the Opening Day left fielder\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e43c0b60d9a729d2823d187a4acbbf38.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Poll results showing a majority of Royals fans would prefer Isaac Collins be the Opening Day left fielder<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Isaac Collins \u2013 who probably will be the Opening Day left fielder \u2013 got 57% of the vote. On retrospect, I guess that\u2019s a pretty obvious call. Royals fans are smart enough not to put too much stock into Spring Training stats, and if Isaac Collins can\u2019t be the guy, the Royals will be starting the year behind the eight ball in the outfield for at least the third season in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What\u2019s perhaps more interesting is how the rest of the results came in. I can understand Lane Thomas is probably better suited to center field instead of Kyle Isbel against the projected starter, a tough lefty in Chris Sale. But Starling Marte could still really hit last year, and while his defense didn\u2019t rate well, the Royals really need a solid bat more than a glove out there. But Royals fans preferred the field of \u201csomeone else\u201d rather than Marte. Who are you all putting out there instead of him? Nick Loftin has had a really nice spring, so maybe he would make some sense. I still think I\u2019d take Marte, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Regardless, Collins is who Royals fans want and almost certainly who they\u2019ll get. Only two weeks to go to find out if it\u2019s going to work!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">These survey results are sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FanDuel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;FanDuel&quot;}\" class=\"link \">FanDuel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year, we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2387],"tags":[74430,5,919,4362,936,2123,55,2596,2595,3402,3540,4,15108,252,14923,151,1420],"class_list":["post-622535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-allan-henry-imagn","tag-baseball","tag-chris-sale","tag-isaac-collins","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-lane-thomas","tag-mlb","tag-nick-loftin","tag-royals","tag-royals-fans","tag-spring-training","tag-starling-marte"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116224639486142924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622535","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=622535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}