{"id":493656,"date":"2026-02-27T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/493656\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:03:07","slug":"carter-jensen-launches-first-spring-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/493656\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter Jensen Launches First Spring Homer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carter Jensen\u2019s ascent with the Royals has been rapid. Once unranked by Baseball America among its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/rankings\/2026-top-100-prospects\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 100 Prospects<\/a>, he\u2019s now viewed as one of the game\u2019s most exciting young talents and has almost cracked the top 10, thanks largely to his elite raw power and a strong showing with Kansas City late last year.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday against the Diamondbacks, he delivered his first homer of the spring, a 102.2 mph two-run missile. He finished the game going 3-for-3, one hit of which had a 105.6 mph exit velocity.<\/p>\n<p>More on Carter Jensen from the Wire<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button button--secondary button--md\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/mlb-prospects-wire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See the latest wire reports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carter Jensen\u2019s ascent with the Royals has been rapid. Once unranked by Baseball America among its Top 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-493656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}