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The Royals wanted to improve their outfield and although their first choice would have been to trade with Boston for Jarren Duran or Wilyer Abreu, they did a solid job by dealing for the Brewers\u2019 Isaac Collins and signing Lane Thomas in free agency.<\/p>\n
Both players are platoon-type outfielders but with Matt Quatraro managing they\u2019ll be in great shape in terms of getting the most out of both players. Thomas can really rake against left-handed pitchers (.292\/.359\/.500 against lefties over his career), although he doesn\u2019t hit well against right-handers. Collins was one of the better rookie outfielders in the NL in 2025, playing well defensively and getting on-base at a good clip while stealing 16 bases.<\/p>\n
The best move they made was landing left-handed reliever Matt Strahm from the Phillies in a trade. Strahm, who began his big-league career in KC, punched out 70 batters in 62 1\/3 innings with a 1.075 WHIP and 2.74 ERA for the Phillies in 2025. He\u2019ll join Lucas Erceg in setting up for closer Carlos Est\u00e9vez.<\/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 wanted to improve their outfield and although their first choice would have been to trade with Boston for Jarren Duran or Wilyer Abreu, they did a solid job by dealing for the Brewers\u2019 Isaac Collins and signing Lane Thomas in free agency. Both players are platoon-type outfielders but with Matt Quatraro managing they\u2019ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2224294,"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":[340725],"class_list":["post-2224293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-royals-rumblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Kansas-City-Royals-news-Could-East-Village-become-an-option.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224293","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=2224293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224295,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224293\/revisions\/2224295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}