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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 19h

A Saturday of service and smiles in Barrio Laura near San Pedro de Macorís.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 1d

“He’s truly a Royals legend and we will miss him dearly.” - J.J. Picollo

Check out our feature on Jirsch from two years ago after he won his 1,000 game at Omaha!

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 1d

So why do we think our annual #EmbracingDiversityWeek👑 journey to the DR is so important?

Jeff Diskin explains.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 2d

Highlights: Los Prospectos Reales vs. @aguilascibaenas.

The arms ruled the day! 💪🏽

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 2d

Game #2 as Los Prospectos Reales welcome the @aguilascibaenas to the Academy.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 2d

Always in our hearts, we celebrated Yordano Ventura’s legacy on Wednesday afternoon with several joyous Wiffle Ball games.

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#Ace30 💙

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 3d

Game #1 highlights from Wednesday as we matched up with the Fuerza Aérea de República Dominicana (Dominican Republic Air Force)!

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 3d

Game #1 here in the DR!

One hour to first pitch as we take on the Dominican Air Force!

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 4d

A visit on Tuesday to Holt’s House of Hope in Boca Chica where our big kids had an amazing time with the niños.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 4d

A very special visit this afternoon to an amateur academy where we met kids who dream about being a pro baseball player.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 4d

Tuesday work at the Academy.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 5d

Recap of our first full day…

Interacting with our DR Academy players, learning vitilla (more on this soon!) and experiencing a legit Dominican thunderstorm!

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 5d

Workout flicks.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 6d

Bienvenidos to the DR!

Day one of our historic #EmbracingDiversityWeek👑!!

30 players, mostly from our 2025 Draft class, will work out, play games(!)!, and experience this baseball-crazed island.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 13d

Hits after hits after hits after hits…

The last two players in a full 162-game season to lead @MLB in hits in back-to-back seasons both wore @Royals blue.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 13d

That 482’ feeling.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 15d

Aging like a fine wine…

Salvador Perez last night became the 3rd primary catcher in MLB history to record three 100-RBI seasons after the age of 30.

HOF Bill Dickey (1937-39)
HOF Gary Carter (1984-86)
Future HOF Salvador Perez (2021, 2024-25)

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 18d

2025 began at the NW Arkansas for Carter Jensen. It will end with the Royals.

But his success with the Naturals was more than enough to be named the Texas League All-Star catcher.

Congrats Carter!!

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 21d

During our visit to @KUHospital yesterday, we met Sammy who passed along his “Sammy Strong” yellow bracelet to our guys, including Carter Jensen.

Carter told Sammy to look for him wearing it during Friday’s game and then proceeded to hit 3 doubles.

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#SammyStrong💛

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 22d

Futures Night 2025. ⚾️

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 22d

Ahead of Futures Night tonight, our six organizational award winners made a few memorable stops in KC.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 22d

Our organizational award winners are out and about in KC this morning.

Stay tuned later for some videos. Here’s a sneak peek!

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 24d

“Bringing unmatched dedication, expertise, and care to their athletes every single day.”

Huge congratulations to Brad Groleau, the 2025 Texas League Athletic Trainer of the Year!

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 24d

David and the Doc…young Carolina League aces!

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Thanks to Lynchburg for the photo of Gooden.

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Raising Royals @raisingroyals.bsky.social · 25d

Winner-take-ALL tomorrow night at Segra Park after Columbia’s 15-10 victory on Tuesday night!

Spend two minutes to watch all the highlights (and there were plenty!)

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#GlowForItAll

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