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The Kansas City Royals baseball team is currently owned by an ownership group led by John Sherman. The franchise was first established by Ewing Kauffman in 1967.
Jensen played two seasons with the Rogers Royals of the Minnesota State High School League. [3] He graduated to the Green Bay Gamblers of the United States Hockey League (USHL) and in his first season in 2008–09, he registered five goals, 17 assists and 22 points in 52 games.
The Royals selected him second overall in the 2019 MLB draft and he made his MLB debut in 2022. Witt was named to his first All-Star Game in 2024 . Witt is the only shortstop in MLB history to have achieved two 30–30 seasons (30 home runs and 30 stolen bases ), having done so in 2023 and 2024.
The Royals won 7–2 in the 12th inning, making them the 2015 World Series Champions. [23] Pérez was unanimously named the World Series Most Valuable Player . [ 24 ] He is the first catcher to win the award since Pat Borders in 1992 and the second Venezuelan to win MVP, following Sandoval in 2010.
Rogers hit pinch-hitter Michael Massey to put the leadoff man on base. Two batters later, Royals outfielder Kyle Isbel singled and Massey moved into scoring position.
It opened in 1973 as Royals Stadium and was named for Kauffman twenty years later on July 2, 1993. Since its last major renovation in 2009 , the listed seating capacity is 37,903. Kauffman Stadium was built specifically for baseball during an era when building multisport "cookie-cutter" stadiums was commonplace.
Clint Hurdle (1975) was the first player drafted by the Royals in the first round from Florida, a state which has produced seven first-rounders for the Royals overall. Johnny Damon was the last of four first-round picks by the Royals in 1992 and went on to win World Series championships with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. [ 14 ]
The Royals wore their trademark powder blue road uniforms from 1973 to 1991 and reintroduced it in 2008 as an alternate jersey. [17]When the Kansas City Athletics moved to Oakland after the 1967 season, Kansas City was left without major league baseball or, for the first time since 1883, professional baseball at all.