Bobby Witt Jr.‘s breakout 2024 marketing campaign continued on Thursday. The 24-year-old smashed homer No. 20 on the 12 months, undertaking an MLB first.
With the round-tripper, the Kansas Metropolis Royals star is the primary participant in baseball historical past to start their profession recording 20 residence runs and 20 stolen bases in back-to-back-to-back years.
In 2023, Witt grew to become solely the seventh participant in MLB historical past to publish consecutive 20/20 seasons to start out their profession. Solely three gamers have performed so in three of their first 4 seasons, together with Grady Sizemore, Darryl Strawberry and Bobby Bonds, per Stathead.
Witt has seemingly picked up the place he left off following a red-hot July that noticed him catapult into the American League MVP award dialog. By 23 video games, he went hitless solely as soon as, slashing an unimaginable .489/.520/.833 with seven residence runs and 22 RBI.
The Royals star went 2-for-4 in Thursday’s 7-1 win over the Detroit Tigers, rising successful streak that is reached 14 video games. In the meantime, Witt ranks among the many prime 10 in a number of classes league-wide, together with RBI (sixth, 78), OPS (fourth, 1.002) and batting common (first, .350).
In line with FanDuel Sportsbook, Witt has the second-best odds to win AL MVP honors (+440), trailing solely New York Yankees slugger Aaron Decide (-950).
