{"id":2302269,"date":"2026-02-27T01:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2302269"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:28:24","slug":"royals-rhp-stephen-kolek-dealing-with-left-oblique-strain-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-rhp-stephen-kolek-dealing-with-left-oblique-strain-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals RHP Stephen Kolek dealing with left oblique strain | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Kansas City Royals right-hander Stephen Kolek will miss at least five to seven days and possibly longer \u200bafter sustaining a left oblique \u200cstrain.<\/p>\n<p>Kolek felt tightness in his left side while warming up for a relief appearance during Wednesday\u2019s spring training game against the Seattle \u200cMariners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Kolek) \u200bis the guy that \u2060probably you would \u2060have put near the bottom of the list of guys who might get hurt,\u201d Royals manager Matt Quatraro told \u200breporters on Thursday. \u201cHis arm\u2019s been healthy, and he\u2019s in great shape. He \u2060takes care of \u2060himself. And then something like \u200bthis pops up. It\u2019s just unexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kolek, who \u200bturns 29 in April, is competing for \u200ca spot in the Kansas City rotation. He went 1-2 with a 1.91 ERA in five starts for \u2060the Royals last season after being acquired from the San Diego Padres along with fellow right-hander \u2060Ryan \u200cBergert in exchange for catcher \u2060Freddy Fermin.<\/p>\n<p>Kolek was 4-5 with \u200ba \u200c4.18 ERA in 14 starts, \u200bincluding a \u2060complete-game shutout, for San Diego prior to the trade. Overall, he is 8-7 with a 4.01 ERA in 61 appearances (19 starts) with the Padres (2024-25) and Royals.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field \u200bLevel Media<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\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 wkzo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals right-hander Stephen Kolek will miss at least five to seven days and possibly longer \u200bafter sustaining a left oblique \u200cstrain. Kolek felt tightness in his left side while warming up for a relief appearance during Wednesday\u2019s spring training game against the Seattle \u200cMariners. \u201c(Kolek) \u200bis the guy that \u2060probably you would \u2060have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2302270,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2302269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Royals-RHP-Stephen-Kolek-dealing-with-left-oblique-strain.JPG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302269","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=2302269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302271,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302269\/revisions\/2302271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}