{"id":877736,"date":"2026-10-10T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877736\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:54:10","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-angeibel-gomez-turns-heads-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877736\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Angeibel Gomez turns heads in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ll start with the guy people will ask about first. Gomez is a tapered 6-foot-2. While he isn\u2019t a freaky athlete in the Elly De La Cruz<\/a> mold, he\u2019s limber and has a fast bat for a kid his age. Facing some of the best stuff of his life, his feel for hitting stood out. Gomez is athletic in the box, and he was able to fight off above-average velo on the hands, turn around 97 above the belt, and flatten the bat and hit a line drive on a hard fastball up, all while holding his own versus spin. He fouled off a couple tough sliders and took one just beneath the zone. He wasn\u2019t perfect \u2014 he expanded the zone a few times and chased a curve in the dirt \u2014 but it was a really impressive showing in context.<\/p>\n

Where does this go from here? To my eye, Gomez doesn\u2019t look like an early-mature guy, but he also isn\u2019t someone who screams \u201cphysical projection\u201d in the way that, say, Sebastian Walcott<\/a> did at his age. Gomez already has average measurable power, and while there\u2019s room for him to grow into more, my projection leans closer to \u201ccomfortably plus\u201d than \u201c80.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll start with the guy people will ask about first. Gomez is a tapered 6-foot-2. While he isn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[229314,363,85880,99],"class_list":["post-877736","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\/877736","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=877736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}