Predicting the 2026 Royals Postseason Awards with Rany Jazayerli

About this episode

The episode features predictions for the Kansas City Royals' 2026 postseason awards with insights from Dr. Rany Jazayerli.

The 2026 Season is less than a week away for the Kansas City Royals, so it’s time to make our predictions for the Royals ’26 Postseason awards. The good doctor, Dr. Rany Jazayerli joins us to put in his two cents are who the best of the Kansas City Royals will be. David Lesky (Publisher - Inside the Crown/@DBLesky) and Soren Petro (Sports Radio 810-WHB, 810whb.com/@SorenPetro) welcome Dr. Rany Jazayerli (Co-Founder of Baseball Prospectus/@Jazayerli) to help us predict what the ’26 Royals season will be and who will win the awards. - Player/Pitcher of the Year. - Breakout Player. - Biggest Disappointment. - Best Position Player not named Bobby Witt Jr. - Best Pitcher not named Cole Ragans. - Best Reliever. - Biggest Impact Rookie. - Top Prospect at the end of the year. - Royals Record. ⁃ Key Story Line of the season will be…

People in this episode

Hosts: Soren Petro, David Lesky

Guest: Rany Jazayerli

Topics covered

• 2026 Royals season predictions
• Postseason awards
• Baseball analysis
• Player performance
• Kansas City Royals

Keywords

• Royals postseason
• 2026 season
• baseball predictions
• player of the year
• breakout player
• biggest disappointment
• top prospect

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Baseball Prospectus

Places: Kansas City Royals

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