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Thus far, the Kansas City Royals<\/a> have been a major disappointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n They are tied for last in the AL Central with the Detroit Tigers<\/a> and have the second-worst run differential in the American League at minus-48.\u00a0<\/p>\n Star shortstop Bobby Witt Jr.’s knee soreness won’t make claiming wins any easier if the injury turns into something more.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the outfield, Bleacher Report’s Kerry Miller<\/a> writes that the Royals should be letting the young guys play. He questions why Kansas City has not already designated a 37-year-old designated hitter and outfielder for assignment.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It’s probably going to be a similar story if the Royals give up the ghost on [Starling] Marte, who has yet to homer or steal a base despite being on Kansas City’s active roster since Opening Day,” Miller wrote Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Marte, a two-time All-Star and Gold Glove Award winner, is not the same caliber of player he was in the past with the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> and New York Mets<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speed was a major factor in Marte’s game, but he has just one stolen base attempt all year.\u00a0<\/p>\n MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0Cubs<\/a>\u2019\u00a0cost to trade for Tarik Skubal from Tigers revealed by ex-MLB GM<\/a><\/p>\n “It’s surprising they haven’t given either Kameron Misner or John Rave a shot in Marte’s spot. The pair of 28-year-old outfielders with a bit of MLB experience has combined for 21 home runs and 23 stolen bases at Triple-A Omaha,” Miller added. “(Then again, the Royals seem to have their sights set on draft lottery odds, so maybe they’ll just let it ride with Marte on his $1M deal.)”\u00a0<\/p>\n Marte’s career is on the back nine, but maybe he finds a suitable fit with a contender if he is DFA’d or traded.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, it’s hard to imagine he has much value at this moment.\u00a0<\/p>\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.sportingnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thus far, the Kansas City Royals have been a major disappointment.\u00a0 They are tied for last in the AL Central with the Detroit Tigers and have the second-worst run differential in the American League at minus-48.\u00a0 Star shortstop Bobby Witt Jr.’s knee soreness won’t make claiming wins any easier if the injury turns into something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2305349,"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-2450215","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-reportedly-in-contract-talks-with-former-Mets-Pirates-361.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450215","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=2450215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450216,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450215\/revisions\/2450216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More MLB news:<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n