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When the Royals opened their trade season by re-acquiring Adam Frazier from the Pittsburgh Pirates last month, there were certainly reasons to question why this reunion was prioritized<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Frazier was coming off 2024 season with Kansas City that was underwhelming to say the least, as he slashed just .202\/.282\/.294 with four homers, 22 RBI and a career-low 64 wRC+.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then, after signing with the Pirates in free agency this winter, he didn’t do convince the doubters that he’d suddenly become a more adequate hitter. His stats may have been better than they were the year prior, but he was still just a .654 OPS and 82 wRC+ hitter. Certainly nothing to write home about.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, you’d never guess that Frazier had been a below average hitter since the first half of the 2021 season with how strong he’s looked since returning to the Royals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When the Royals acquired Frazier, the second-half of the season had yet to begin and they were coming off a pretty shambolic first-half as an offense<\/a>. They sat in the bottom five in baseball in team wRC+ (27th at 83), OPS (26that .674), runs scored (29th at 328) and home runs (29th at 73).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With how he’d performed in Pittsburgh to start the 2025 campaign, it wasn’t egregious to think that Frazier wasn’t going to be a key part of this lineup on a regular basis.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But that’s precisely what the veteran utility man has gone on to be in this revamped Royals lineup<\/a>, as he’s become quite the unexpected catalyst. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 86 plate appearances across 24 games, the veteran utility man is slashing .316\/.349\/.456 with two homers, 13 RBI, a 12.8% K-rate and a 119 wRC+.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Out goes Frazier! pic.twitter.com\/udadTxOrZC<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kansas City Royals (@Royals) August 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n <\/p>\n And since his arrival, the Royals have looked night and day on offense. As a team, they rank amongst the Top 10 in baseball<\/a> in wRC+ (8th at 110), OPS (6th at .773), runs scored (8th at 147) and home runs (6th at 43) post All-Star break.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He may have been brought back into the fold to be a strong veteran presence in the locker room<\/a>, but Frazier has quickly become a part of their regular lineup that Royals simply can’t live without at the moment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nAdam Frazier is silencing the critics with a strong second impression with Royals<\/h2>\n
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