{"id":680392,"date":"2026-04-21T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680392\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:47:15","slug":"royals-call-wednesday-news-conference-regarding-clubs-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680392\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals call Wednesday news conference regarding \u2018club\u2019s future\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Kansas City Royals Chairman and CEO John Sherman, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe and Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas will gather for a news conference Wednesday for a \u201cspecial event regarding club\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news conference is set for 10 a.m. at The American restaurant in Crown Center.<\/p>\n<p>The news conference comes on the heels of the KCMO City Council passing a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kshb.com\/news\/local-news\/missouri\/kansas-city\/kcmo-city-council-passes-royals-stadium-financing-ordinance-clearing-way-for-team-to-play-downtown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">financing framework<\/a> to contribute up to $600 million in funding for a $1.9 billion baseball stadium district centered around Washington Square Park.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Kansas City Royals Chairman and CEO John Sherman, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe and Kansas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,11826,185,86050],"class_list":{"0":"post-680392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-royals-stadium","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-washigton-square-park"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116443245267248158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680392","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=680392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}