Bobby Witt Jr.
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Witt with the Kansas City Royals in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Kansas City Royals – No. 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Shortstop | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: June 14, 2000 Colleyville, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
| April 7, 2022, for the Kansas City Royals | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics (through June 20, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .287 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hits | 622 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 325 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 131 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert Andrew Witt Jr. (born June 14, 2000) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Royals selected him second overall in the 2019 MLB draft and he made his MLB debut in 2022. In 2024, Witt was named to his first All-Star Game and earned both his first Gold Glove Award and Silver Slugger Award. Internationally, Witt represents the United States.
Witt is the only shortstop in MLB history to have achieved two 30–30 seasons (30 home runs and 30 stolen bases), having done so in 2023 and 2024.