Coming into the 2025 season, I considered myself rather bullish on Maikel Garcia. Royals fans and analysts were mixed on Garcia and understandably so. After an imperfect but promising 2023 campaign, Garcia had a disappointing 2024 at the plate, hitting 31% below league-average. Consequently, he was not given a guaranteed lineup spot heading into this year. Jonathan India, Michael Massey and Garcia were all trying to secure their spot as an everyday hitter. Someone was going to end up at second base, someone else was going to end up at third base and someone else was going to split time between the outfield and the infield in a super utility sort of role.

Plenty of people were advocating for Garcia to be given the super utility role, and it was an understandable position. Garcia looked lik

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