{"id":658884,"date":"2026-04-02T14:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658884\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:09:15","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-rex-hudler-will-be-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658884\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Rex Hudler will be back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans have been wondering where Royals color commentator Rex Hudler<\/a> is, he will be back, but maybe not as much as you would\u2019ve hoped.<\/p>\n

For the most part, the reviews for Major League Baseball\u2019s production of Royals games have been positive. It\u2019s a small sample size (three games), but the picture seems clearer, the graphics are sharper and even the commercials are a vast improvement. The Royals also made changes to their broadcast team. Bridget Howard is a new sideline reporter, and Eric Hosmer is one of the analysts who will be working with play-by-play broadcaster Ryan Lefebvre. Although the Royals never announced it, Hosmer, Jeremy Guthrie and Rex Hudler will each work roughly one-third of the broadcasts this season, with Jeff Montgomery filling that role at some points, too.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, Carlos Estevez<\/a> is officially on the IL, Steven Cruz has been called up to fill his spot.<\/p>\n

If you went to bed after the Royals got up 12-1 last night, the game got interesting, but Anne Rogers <\/a>talked about how the bottom of the Royals order dominated.<\/p>\n

Manager Matt Quatraro likes to say he\u2019ll take the production wherever it comes in the lineup, and he\u2019s not wrong about that. But Wednesday\u2019s offense was fueled not by the star hitters, but by the bottom of the lineup — and the Royals will definitely take that.<\/p>\n

The Nos. 6-9 hitters went 10-for-16 and drove in eight runs, including Jonathan India\u2019s grand slam in the sixth inning and Kyle Isbel\u2019s solo shot in the seventh.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s what happened early that stood out. Jac Caglianone, hitting seventh, got it started in the second inning by hitting a two-out double. No. 8 hitter Isaac Collins followed with an RBI double, and Isbel, the No. 9 hitter, kept it going with an RBI single. Isbel then stole second, allowing him to score on Maikel Garcia\u2019s single as the lineup turned over.<\/p>\n

Kevin O\u2019Brien of Royals Keep<\/a> wrote about early takeaways of the Royals offense.<\/p>\n

Michael Massey played in Omaha yesterday and had a solid day.<\/p>\n

MLB.com<\/a> wrote the biggest takeaway from each team\u2019s first week.<\/p>\n

Athletics outfielder Denzel Clarke<\/a> made another ridiculous catch yesterday.<\/p>\n

Fittingly, today\u2019s song is Have You Ever Seen The Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans have been wondering where Royals color commentator Rex Hudler is, he will be back, but maybe not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,35554,38557],"class_list":{"0":"post-658884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas-city-royals-news","10":"tag-royals-rumblings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658884","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=658884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}