{"id":2204195,"date":"2025-12-18T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2204195"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:56:26","slug":"outfielder-lane-thomas-and-kansas-city-royals-finalize-5-25-million-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/outfielder-lane-thomas-and-kansas-city-royals-finalize-5-25-million-one-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Outfielder Lane Thomas and Kansas City Royals finalize $5.25 million, one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Outfielder <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/lane-thomas\/828962\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/lane-thomas\/828962\">Lane Thomas<\/a> and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/kansas-city-royals\/231\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> finalized a $5.25 million, one-year contract on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thomas can earn an additional $1 million in performance bonuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had nine RBIs for Cleveland in the 2024 AL Division Series against Detroit but hit .160 with four homers and 11 RBIs in 125 at-bats over 39 games this year in an injury-decimated season with Cleveland. He batted .268 for Washington in 2023, when he set career bests with 28 homers, 86 RBIs and 20 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thomas didn\u2019t play between April 8 and 15 this year because of a bone bruise in his right wrist sustained when hit by a pitch from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/shane-smith-1009824\/1322830\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/shane-smith-1009824\/1322830\">Shane Smith<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-white-sox\/228\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-white-sox\/228\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> and between April 19 and May 22 because of the same injury. He was out between May 26 and June 9 due to plantar fasciitis in his right foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He played his last big league game of the season on July 4, then was sidelined again because of the foot injury, though he did appear in three Double-A games from Sept. 2-5 as part of an injury rehabilitation assignment. He has surgery on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A year earlier, he hit a tiebreaking grand slam off Detroit ace <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tarik-skubal\/1055775\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tarik-skubal\/1055775\">Tarik Skubal<\/a> in Game 5 on an AL Wild Card Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thomas had a $7,825,000 salary in a one-year contract that avoided salary arbitration. He became a free agent last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now 30, Thomas has a .242 average with 76 homers and 254 RBIs in seven seasons with St. Louis (2019-21), Washington (2021-24) and the Guardians, who acquired him from the Nationals ahead of the 2024 trade deadline for infielder Jos\u00e9 Tena, left-hander Alex Clemmey and infielder Rafael Ramirez Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/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.tsn.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Outfielder Lane Thomas and the Kansas City Royals finalized a $5.25 million, one-year contract on Wednesday. Thomas can earn an additional $1 million in performance bonuses. He had nine RBIs for Cleveland in the 2024 AL Division Series against Detroit but hit .160 with four homers and 11 RBIs in [&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":[21848],"class_list":["post-2204195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204195","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=2204195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204196,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204195\/revisions\/2204196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}