Maikel Garcia 2026 Fantasy Baseball Outlook: Can he Build on the 2025 Breakout?
After giving us glimpses in 2023 and 2024, Kansas City Royals infielder Maikel Garcia enjoyed a breakout season in 2025 on many levels. While he only stole 23 bags after having 37 in 2024, Garcia set new career-best marks with 170 hits, 39 doubles, 16 home runs, 74 RBI, and 62 walks to go along with 81 runs and a .286/.351/.449 slash line. This performance has pushed Garcia's 2026 ADP well within the Top-100 picks, a price worth paying to roster him. Garcia continued to post an above-average hard-hit rate and AVG EV last season while improving his walk and strikeout rates to career-best marks of 9.3% and 12.6%, respectively. All while maintaining his elite 90.6% zone and 85% overall contact rate and improving his batted ball angles a bit. If Garcia's better batted ball angles can carry over into 2026, a 20-homer season could be in the cards with Kansas City moving the fences in.
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