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Cole Ragans<\/a><\/strong> is set to begin a rehab assignment on Sunday, with a scheduled two-inning start planned with Triple-A Omaha.\u00a0 It has now been over three months since Ragans was sidelined by a rotator cuff strain, and if the southpaw is able to make it back to the Royals<\/strong> rotation before the season is over, it won\u2019t be in a full-fledged starting role.\u00a0 \u201cWe know we don\u2019t have the time to get him built up to five or six innings,<\/em>\u201d Royals manager Matt Quatraro told reporters (including Jaylon Thompson of the Kansas City Star<\/a>), indicating that Ragans would still be a starter, but perhaps in a piggyback capacity or as the lead pitcher of a bullpen game.<\/p>\n Seth Lugo<\/a><\/strong> was just placed on the 15-day IL earlier this week due to a back strain, and Kris Bubic<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s season was ended by a rotator cuff strain in late July.\u00a0 Despite these and other injuries, the Royals\u2019 pitching staff has still been the biggest factor in keeping the team afloat in the wild card race, as Kansas City\u2019s offense has remained inconsistent.\u00a0 If the Royals can stick around in the playoff hunt until late September, getting Ragans back in even a limited capacity might be a huge boost in helping K.C. return to the postseason.<\/p>\n More from around the AL Central\u2026<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.mlbtraderumors.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cole Ragans is set to begin a rehab assignment on Sunday, with a scheduled two-inning start planned with Triple-A Omaha.\u00a0 It has now been over three months since Ragans was sidelined by a rotator cuff strain, and if the southpaw is able to make it back to the Royals rotation before the season is over, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2002372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[311239,352108,352111,364355],"class_list":["post-2002371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-cole-ragans","tag-paul-sewald","tag-reese-olson","tag-will-brennan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AL-Central-Notes-Ragans-Sewald-Olson-Brennan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n