{"id":833804,"date":"2026-10-20T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/833804\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:45:14","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-jj-picollo-has-work-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/833804\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals News: JJ Picollo has work to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Pearson hit the ground running after coming to Kansas City. In his first 20 appearances with the Royals, he pitched 21 innings with only 1 earned run, 20 strikeouts, and 11 baserunners allowed, good for a 0.43 ERA and a 2.62 FIP. Pearson\u2019s emergence into the Kansas City bullpen was a much-needed spark for the bullpen that had posted a 5.30 ERA before his arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Pearson slightly adjusted his pitch mix by leaning more on his fastball and sinker. In Kansas City, he increased his fastball usage from 40.5% to 48.1% and his sinker from 9.5% to 16%. To offset this adjustment, he decreased his slider usage from 36.1% to 21.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Pearson was unable to maintain the near-perfect start to his Royals tenure. In September, he had a stretch of five consecutive appearances with at least one earned run, during which his Royals ERA ballooned to 4.62 and his FIP to 3.77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pearson hit the ground running after coming to Kansas City. In his first 20 appearances with the Royals,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,35554,2596,2595,4,252,38557],"class_list":["post-833804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansas-city-royals-news","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-royals-rumblings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117473543692441979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833804","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=833804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}