2026 Kansas City Royals Preview! (1/16 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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HEADS UP THAT WE RECORDED THIS BEFORE WE LEARNED ABOUT THE NEW KAUFFMAN STADIUM CHANGES! Frank Stampfl is joined by Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers on X), who covers the Royals for MLB.com! How much will Carter Jensen play? Will Jac Caglianone take the next step in 2026?
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| 0:00.0 | Let's preview the Kansas City Royals for 2026 up next on Fantasy Baseball today. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to On the Beat, our mini team preview series we're doing here at Fantasy Baseball today. |
| 0:11.3 | I am Frank Stamphold joined by Ann Rogers, who covers the Kansas City Royals for MLB.com. |
| 0:17.5 | Make sure to give her a follow on X at Ann underscore underscore Rogers and on Blue |
| 0:23.0 | Sky and Rogers.Bee sky.com. social. Let's jump into the Royals offseason. They have been |
| 0:29.6 | pretty busy. They acquired Isaac Collins and Nick Mears from the Brewers. They also |
| 0:34.2 | acquired Matt Strom from the Phillies, which is a nice homecoming there as well. |
| 0:38.2 | They also brought in outfielder Cameron Meisner and pitcher Mason Black, some smaller moves there, |
| 0:43.4 | signed outfielder Lane Thomas and reliever Alex Lang. |
| 0:46.8 | What have you made of this offseason for the Royals? |
| 0:49.8 | Do you think it's enough for them to compete in the AL Central heading into 2026? |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, it's been busier for them than what maybe I thought it would be at the start. |
| 1:01.0 | But really, they have done what they said they were going to do to an extent where they've kind of checked off all their boxes enough to say that they can check them off, |
| 1:12.2 | right? |
| 1:12.8 | They've got a couple more outfielders. |
| 1:15.1 | They've got some pitching and, you know, they're able to fill in some depth pieces. |
| 1:20.7 | They believe that their core of the offense, Bobby Wood Jr., Vinnie Pasquantino, |
| 1:26.3 | Salvador Perez, Michael Garcia, |
| 1:27.8 | they're going to carry them that lineup in 2026. So now it's just about how can they add to |
| 1:34.0 | those pieces. They believe Isaac Collins raises the floor, his ability to move around. They believe |
| 1:40.9 | Lane Thomas can have a bounce back season. He has the ability to play center field, kind of give that platoon option out there with Kyle Isbell. So is it enough? I don't know. They're not done. I don't believe at least looking. They'd like to add at least one more bat. But we'll see that's going to come via trade. So we'll see how things shake out there. I think if they started the season off with the team they have right now, |
| 2:04.0 | they would be happy with it. |
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