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The Royals and infielder Abraham Toro<\/a><\/strong> have agreed to a minor league deal, reports Daniel \u00c1lvarez-Montes of El Extrabase<\/a>. The Republik Sports client also receives an invite to big league camp in spring training.<\/p>\n It\u2019s an early birthday present for Toro, who turns 29 tomorrow. The\u00a0trilingual Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/a> infielder\u00a0has appeared in the past seven big league seasons as a part-time, multi-positional player. He was with the Red Sox in 2025 but he was outrighted off the roster in August. He became a free agent at season\u2019s end, which allowed the Royals to sign him to this deal.<\/p>\n He has 1,582 plate appearances over those seven campaigns. His 17.1% strikeout rate is a few ticks better than average but his 6.4% walk rate is on the low side. He has a combined .223\/.285\/.356 line over that time, which translates to an 81 wRC+, indicating he\u2019s been 19% worse than league average.<\/p>\n It\u2019s possible there\u2019s a bit more in the bat, as he\u2019s put up more intriguing numbers in the minors. Dating back to the start of 2021, he has 799 minor league plate appearances with a 12.6% walk rate, 19.1% strikeout rate, .286\/.380\/.474 line and 120 wRC+.<\/p>\n Defensively, he has logged hundreds of big league innings at the non-shortstop infield positions, with brief looks in the outfield corners as well. The Royals are set on the left side of the infield with Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a><\/strong> at shortstop and Maikel Garcia<\/a><\/strong> at third. On the other side of the dirt, Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a><\/strong> has first base locked down. Second base is a bit less settled since Jonathan India<\/a><\/strong> and Michael Massey<\/a><\/strong> both struggled in 2025.<\/p>\n Kansas City currently has Nick Loftin<\/a><\/strong> and Tyler Tolbert<\/a><\/strong> on the roster as potential bench infielders but both are still optionable. If the Royals would prefer those guys to get regular playing time, they could be sent to Triple-A. The Royals have added Kevin Newman<\/a><\/strong> and now Toro as veteran infielders on non-roster pacts who could potentially take over a bench role. If Toro cracks the roster, he is out of options. If he\u2019s holding a roster spot at the end of the year, he can be retained beyond 2026 via arbitration.<\/p>\n Photo courtesy of Brian Fluharty, Imagn Images<\/em><\/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.mlbtraderumors.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Royals and infielder Abraham Toro have agreed to a minor league deal, reports Daniel \u00c1lvarez-Montes of El Extrabase. The Republik Sports client also receives an invite to big league camp in spring training. It\u2019s an early birthday present for Toro, who turns 29 tomorrow. The\u00a0trilingual Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois infielder\u00a0has appeared in the past seven big league […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206558,"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":[425865],"class_list":["post-2206557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-abraham-toro"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Royals-To-Sign-Abraham-Toro-To-Minor-League-Deal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206557","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=2206557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206559,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206557\/revisions\/2206559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}