{"id":2204768,"date":"2025-12-18T23:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2204768"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:13:18","slug":"maikel-garcia-and-kansas-city-royals-finalize-57-5-million-5-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/maikel-garcia-and-kansas-city-royals-finalize-57-5-million-5-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Maikel Garcia and Kansas City Royals finalize $57.5 million, 5-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 All-Star third baseman Maikel Garcia and the Kansas City Royals finalized a $57.5 million, five-year contract on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City scheduled a Wednesday news conference to discuss the deal, which includes a team option for 2031. The agreement essentially buys out his arbitration years and potentially his first two years of free agency. <\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Garcia is coming off a breakout season both in the field, where he won his first Gold Glove playing alongside All-Star shortstop Bobby Witt Jr., and at the plate, where he hit .286 with a career-high 16 homers and 74 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>While the Royals have prioritized landing outfield help in the offseason \u2014 they agreed to a $5.25 million <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lane-thomas-contract-royals-3d1fe0b5aab2858228752362ae5e01a2\">deal with Lane Thomas<\/a><\/span> on Thursday \u2014 they also wanted to ensure they maintained their franchise cornerstones. That began with re-signing catcher Salvador Perez to a $25 million, two-year contract in November, and it continued by keeping Garcia through at least the 2030 season.<\/p>\n<p>He also is capable of playing shortstop and second base, and Garcia even dabbled with playing in the outfield last season.<\/p>\n<p>By keeping him in the fold, the Royals also solidified what has been one of the better infields in baseball. Witt is coming off a second consecutive All-Star appearance and Gold Glove, Perez is a nine-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove winner, and first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino just had the best season of his four-year big league career, hitting .264 with 32 homers and 113 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>It also follows a trend of the Royals keeping their own. Each of those four players was signed and developed by Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals failed to make the playoffs last season, but they did finish 82-80, the first time they have had consecutive winning years since going to back-to-back World Series in 2014 and \u201915. And with a talented pitching staff set to return, and young position players on the upswing, there is optimism that Kansas City can get back to the postseason in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\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 apnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 All-Star third baseman Maikel Garcia and the Kansas City Royals finalized a $57.5 million, five-year contract on Tuesday. Kansas City scheduled a Wednesday news conference to discuss the deal, which includes a team option for 2031. 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