{"id":2181915,"date":"2025-11-30T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2181915"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:43:12","slug":"royals-acquire-pitcher-mason-black-from-the-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-acquire-pitcher-mason-black-from-the-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals acquire pitcher Mason Black from the Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Black throws two variations of an average fastball and the velocity on his heater dipped in 2024 and hasn\u2019t bounced back. Both his two- and four-seamers sit around 93 mph and top out at 96. Neither his low-80s sweeping slider nor his mid-80s cutter have been as effective in 2025 as they were last season, leaving him without a better than average offering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Though Black also possesses a fading upper-80s changeup, it\u2019s too firm and flat and he didn\u2019t elicit a single swing and miss with the 91 cambios he threw last season. He slings his pitches from a low three-quarters delivery with quality extension that gives him deception without costing him the ability to throw strikes. He\u2019s more of a back-of-the-rotation starter unless he regains some velocity and improves his command.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black throws two variations of an average fastball and the velocity on his heater dipped in 2024 and hasn\u2019t bounced back. Both his two- and four-seamers sit around 93 mph and top out at 96. Neither his low-80s sweeping slider nor his mid-80s cutter have been as effective in 2025 as they were last season, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2181916,"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":[386045,342873,242572,342874],"class_list":["post-2181915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-royals-trade-rumors-hot-stove","tag-royals-trades","tag-signings","tag-transactions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Royals-acquire-pitcher-Mason-Black-from-the-Giants.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181915","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=2181915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181917,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181915\/revisions\/2181917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}