Per ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan,<\/a> the Royals and Red Sox have discussed a trade for All-Star outfielder Jarren Duran. Passan didn\u2019t provide any information on the return Boston was seeking, however. <\/p>\n\u201cThe Royals have been active on the trade market too, looking to acquire another outfielder,\u201d Passan writes. \u201cThey have discussed acquiring Jarren Duran from the Boston Red Sox and inquired about pitcher MacKenzie Gore and infielder CJ Abrams from the Washington Nationals, according to sources. Though the talks haven\u2019t yielded a deal, the Royals\u2019 efforts to improve on an 82-80 season are clear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Royals starter Cole Ragans could be an intriguing trade candidate for the Red Sox, though they\u2019d likely need to include more than Duran alone to get that deal done. Ragans, a 28-year-old lefty, is under team control through 2028 and was an All-Star in 2024. <\/p>\n
Ragans battled a rotator cuff strain and went 3-3 with a 4.67 ERA in 13 starts last year, but posted a 2.50 FIP and 1.184 WHIP, while striking out 38.1% of the batters he faced. His 2.67 expected ERA and .189 expected batting average against were among the best in the league. <\/p>\n<\/div>\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.masslive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Red Sox boasting a surplus of outfielders and the Royals holding quite a few quality starting pitchers, the two American League teams are logical trading partners. They\u2019ve been in discussions, accordingly. Per ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan, the Royals and Red Sox have discussed a trade for All-Star outfielder Jarren Duran. Passan didn\u2019t provide any […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[359347,21849],"class_list":["post-2197373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty","tag-american-league","tag-baseball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197373","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=2197373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197374,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197373\/revisions\/2197374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}