{"id":2195839,"date":"2025-12-12T02:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2195839"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:48:19","slug":"royals-sign-veteran-outfielder-after-2-year-stint-with-al-central-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-sign-veteran-outfielder-after-2-year-stint-with-al-central-foe\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals sign veteran outfielder after 2-year stint with AL Central foe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals have made an addition to their Major League roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Former Cleveland Guardians outfielder Lane Thomas and the club have agreed to terms on a one-year, $5.25 million deal, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Feinsand\/status\/1999266187981783137?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Feinsand\/status\/1999266187981783137?s=20\">several reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thomas, a 30-year-old outfielder who debuted with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2019 and played his past two seasons with the Guardians, is hoping for a bounce-back season in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Knoxville, Tennessee, native who bats and throws right struggled in 2025, only playing 39 games while hitting .160 with 4 home runs and 11 RBI. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For his career, Thomas has a .242 batting average, 76 home runs and 254 RBI. He had a career-high 28 home runs and 86 RBI with the Washington Nationals in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 2024, splitting time between the Nationals and Guardians, he also had 15 home runs and 63 RBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The signing comes a day after the Atlanta Braves agreed to terms on a deal with outfielder Mike Yastrzemski, who the Royals traded for on trade deadline day last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thomas joins a roster that needs help in the outfield after a season in which Kansas City struggled mightily to find offensive production from those three positions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\"><i>Copyright 2025 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/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.kctv5.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals have made an addition to their Major League roster. Former Cleveland Guardians outfielder Lane Thomas and the club have agreed to terms on a one-year, $5.25 million deal, according to several reports. Thomas, a 30-year-old outfielder who debuted with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2019 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[360043,313221,423954,43627,423377,423953],"class_list":["post-2195839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty","tag-al-central","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-free-agent-signing","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-lane-thomas","tag-royals-signing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195839","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=2195839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195840,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195839\/revisions\/2195840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}