{"id":509565,"date":"2026-03-07T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/509565\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:49:12","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-the-world-baseball-classic-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/509565\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: The World Baseball Classic begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Previously relying on a five-pitch mix that leaned primarily on his four-seam fastball and sweeper, Black refined his repertoire this offseason. The adjustment, along with support from the Royals\u2019 pitching staff, has helped him settle into his new organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Black worked with assistant pitching coach Mike McFerran on his curveball release point, especially when facing left-handed hitters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThat\u2019s been a big help just getting into this organization, having the support staff around us here,\u201d Black said. \u201cJust [to] take the ball whenever they ask me to, whether that be starting, mid relief, short relief. I\u2019m good with whatever [I have to do] to go out there and try to throw zeros.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Previously relying on a five-pitch mix that leaned primarily on his four-seam fastball and sweeper, Black refined his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[229314,363,85880,99],"class_list":["post-509565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city-royals-news","tag-mlb","tag-royals-rumblings","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509565","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=509565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}