{"id":1985217,"date":"2025-08-28T19:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1985217"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:07:16","slug":"royals-new-signing-already-showing-why-yankees-cut-him-loose-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-new-signing-already-showing-why-yankees-cut-him-loose-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals’ new signing already showing why Yankees cut him loose this season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s a new week and the Royals made yet another veteran depth signing to bolster their minor league depth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now “bolster” might be a strong word to use when discussing the Royals acquiring right-handed reliever Geoff Hartlieb on a minor league deal<\/a>. If you thought signing 45-year-old Rich Hill was a puzzling move<\/a>, Hartlieb is a whole different level of confusing.<\/p>\n

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Not only was he sporting awful numbers in his brief major league stints with the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers this season – and he was just average at best in both their Triple-A ranks – but in his first outing as an Omaha Storm Chaser on Wednesday, he showed exactly why he’s bounced around multiple teams this season.<\/p>\n

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Geoff Hartlieb suffers blow-up outing in first appearance in Royals’ organization<\/h2>\n

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It didn’t take long for Hartlieb to get his first shot in Triple-A with the Royals, making an appearance in Omaha’s 15-3 loss to Lehigh Valley on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately for both Hartlieb and the Royals organization, Hartlieb was a major reason why this game was a blowout in the first place, as the 31-year-old looked far from sharp in his debut. In just 0.1 innings of work, Hartlieb surrendered six earned runs off five hits and a walk, placing him at a outrageously high 162.00 ERA in Omaha.<\/p>\n

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High ERAs are nothing new for him in 2025 though, as they’ve become somewhat of a trademark for him at the major league level. While Hartlieb joins the Royals after his release from the Tigers organization – where he threw to a very high 9.00 ERA and even higher 11.62 FIP in a pair of innings of work – he’s likely better known this season for his nightmare time with the Yankees.<\/p>\n

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In just a 1.1 innings of work across two bullpen appearances with New York in 2025, Hartlieb threw to a 40.00<\/a>…yes 40.00 ERA, alongside a 15.87 FIP.<\/p>\n

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While his 3.34 ERA in 35.0 innings in Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre and his 4.73 ERA in 10.1 innings in Triple-A Toledo are much more palatable, his lack of success in the major leagues makes the Royals’ decision to sign him a head-scratcher, as it’s difficult to see a team in an active push for the postseason ever trust him on a major league mound.<\/p>\n

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While 2025 may certainly be the worst Hartlieb has looked at the major league level, it’s certainly not the first time in his career he’s underwhelmed in The Show.<\/p>\n

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Other than a 3.63 ERA in 22.1 innings with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2020 and a 2.25 ERA in a brief four inning stint with the Miami Marlins in 2022, Hartlieb has never posted a major league ERA under 9.00 for a season, and sports a career big league ERA of 7.95 along with an unimpressive 5.71 FIP.<\/p>\n

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The Royals’ brass obviously saw something in him to bring him aboard, but after Wednesday, it’s even harder to see exactly what their reasons were.<\/p>\n

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