{"id":2223556,"date":"2026-01-05T23:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2223556"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:19:41","slug":"why-royals-manager-matt-quatraro-wife-chris-love-kc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-royals-manager-matt-quatraro-wife-chris-love-kc\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Royals manager Matt Quatraro & wife Chris love KC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manager Matt Quatraro heard from many current and former players Sunday after the Royals announced his contract extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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One of those conversations stood out. It was from first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe congratulated me,\u201d Quatraro said Monday, \u201cand then he said, \u2018You\u2019re welcome.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Quatraro shared that funny story during a Zoom call that included general manager J.J. Picollo and Chris Quatraro, the Royals manager\u2019s wife. It\u2019s unusual for a spouse to join a media call, but she wanted to praise Kansas City for being a great place to raise a family.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis was a pretty huge emotional leap for our family, and we really wondered how we were going to be received in the Midwest, being New York natives,\u201d Chris Quatraro said. \u201cAnd when we approached this, we had three top priorities, obviously, having winning seasons, but also on a human level, schools were super important. And what neighborhood were we going to raise our kids in? So that was my job. I think I did a great job doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chris Quatraro laughed at that bit of boastfulness. Then she talked about how the couple loves life in Kansas City. The Quatraros have two sons, Leo and George.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut in all sincerity, can\u2019t tell you how much we appreciate the warmth from the staff when we go to every game at The K, from parking to getting our tickets in and to finding our seats,\u201d she said. \u201cSo The K has just been like a second home to us. And with regard to the schools, truly, the schools here are phenomenal.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe feel so grateful for the elementary school our boys attend. And finally, the neighborhood. We really have some of the best neighbors and friends anybody could ask for. So we hit the trifecta here with winning seasons, great schools, great neighborhood, and we really thank you for letting us continue such prosperity and such good fortune in our lives, in our world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Success wasn\u2019t immediate for Quatraro, who was hired in October 2022. The Royals lost 106 games in his first season but astonished the baseball world by making the playoffs in 2024.<\/p>\n

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The Royals had a winning record last season, despite a rash of injuries. That was why Picollo felt a long-term extension for Quatraro<\/a> was a no-brainer.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe bottom line is we believe we have one of the best managers in the game,\u201d Picollo said. \u201cYou look at the work he\u2019s really completed over the last three years, it\u2019s really exceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Quatraro\u2019s focus since Day 1 has been on the future and how he can get the Royals prepared to win each night. He rarely talks about the past.<\/p>\n

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But on Monday, he took a look back to December 2022 and echoed the sentiment of his wife about why Kansas City is a great place to call home.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were staying at a hotel before getting into the house. But as we drove around \u2014 actually, J.J.\u2019s wife drove us around to look at neighborhoods and stuff \u2014 it was just such a warm feeling,\u201d he said. \u201cJust the neighborhoods, the people we ran into, that was long before anybody knew who any of us were or anything. But we just felt really welcome.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd now that we\u2019ve been here more, there\u2019s a ton of culture, there\u2019s a lot of activities for our kids, as Chris talked about, the schools have been great. The neighborhood has been phenomenal. Not only the friends that we\u2019ve made through our kids, but just our neighbors that either don\u2019t have kids or have older kids, everybody\u2019s just been extremely welcoming. So all of those things go into saying it\u2019s just been a really, really easy transition for us and a place that we really feel like we can be long term.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Manager Matt Quatraro heard from many current and former players Sunday after the Royals announced his contract extension. One of those conversations stood out. It was from first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino. \u201cHe congratulated me,\u201d Quatraro said Monday, \u201cand then he said, \u2018You\u2019re welcome.\u2019\u201d Quatraro shared that funny story during a Zoom call that included general […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2167928,"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":[353344,310650,311274,363932],"class_list":["post-2223556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-contract-extension","tag-kansas-city","tag-matt-quatraro","tag-royals-manager"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/See-photos-from-Royals-broadcaster-Denny-Matthews-wedding.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223556","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=2223556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223557,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223556\/revisions\/2223557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}