{"id":2195740,"date":"2025-12-12T00:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2195740"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:42:11","slug":"kc-signs-former-guardians-nationals-outfielder-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kc-signs-former-guardians-nationals-outfielder-in-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"KC signs former Guardians, Nationals outfielder in free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-3629891\">\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> are hoping to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillSammon\/status\/1999261248236716434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reinforce their outfield<\/a> by adding veteran Lane Thomas, according to Will Sammon of The Athletic. 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KC is reportedly interested in Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Teoscar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2187821,"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":[43627,25866,406821],"class_list":["post-2195740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kansas-City-open-to-trading-a-starting-pitcher-says-GM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195740","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=2195740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195741,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195740\/revisions\/2195741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}