Alfaro was a top 100 prospect as he was coming up with the Rangers, and was traded to the Phillies as part of a package in a blockbuster deal for pitcher Cole Hamels. He served as a starter for the Phillies in 2018 and was a 1.6 rWAR player that year, his best season. He was traded to the Marlins the next year in a package for catcher J.T. Realmuto and hit a career-high 18 home runs for them in 2019. The last three seasons he has bounced around the league and shuttled back and forth between Triple-A and the big leagues. He is a 32-year-old right-handed hitter and will likely serve as depth behind Salvador Perez and Carter Jensen behind the plate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The Royals carried a third catcher on the roster for a significant part of last season, with Salvador Perez spending significant time at first base and DH. The team traded Freddy Fermin to the Padres in July, and Luke Maile became a free agent after the season. The signing of Alfaro could mean Maile won\u2019t return, although the Royals may just be looking to add catching depth in the organization.<\/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.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals have signed veteran catcher Jorge Alfaro to a minor league contract, according to Aram Leighton of Just Baseball. Alfaro is a nine-year veteran with the Phillies, Marlins, Padres, Rockies, Red Sox, and Nationals. In 510 career games, he has hit .253\/.301\/.391. Last year he appeared in 14 games with the Nationals and went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2223385,"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":[386045,342873,242572,342874],"class_list":["post-2223384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-royals-trade-rumors-hot-stove","tag-royals-trades","tag-signings","tag-transactions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Royals-sign-veteran-catcher-Jorge-Alfaro-to-minor-league-deal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223384","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=2223384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223386,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223384\/revisions\/2223386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}