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The Royals announced today they have acquired pitcher Randy Dobnak from the Seattle Mariners for cash considerations. The move comes just days after the team acquired pitcher Connor Seabold from the Toronto Blue Jays for minor league pitcher Denis Samudio and cash considerations. Both players will be added to the 40-man roster, and to make room for them, the Royals transferred pitchers Carlos Est\u00e9vez and Cole Ragans to the 60-day Injured List. Est\u00e9vez has already been out for more than 60 days, while the move means Ragans will be out until at least July 7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Dobnak had an impressive stretch his rookie year, with a 1.59 ERA in 28.1 innings with the Minnesota Twins, but has struggled since then. He has a career 4.86 ERA in 140.2 innings with just 5.4 strikeouts-per-nine-innings, and has pitched just six MLB games since 2021. He had a 4.24 ERA in 13 starts at Triple-A this year, but had an \u201cupward mobility\u201d clause in his minor league contract that required the Mariners to offer him to other teams to be placed on another 40-man roster. Dobnak has options remaining and has been assigned to Triple-A Omaha.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Royals acquired Seabold on Tuesday and he made his team debut that evening against the Nationals. The 30- year old is out of options, and is pitching for his third team this year. He has pitched in parts of five seasons with the Red Sox, Rockies, Rays, Braves, Tigers, and Blue Jays, and has a 7.25 ERA in 139 innings. He has been better this year, however, with a 4.05 ERA in 20 innings after his outing with the Royals. Samudio is a 21-year-old pitching at Low-A Columbia, where he had a 4.50 ERA with 17 strikeouts in 14 innings. He was not ranked on top Royals prospect lists for Baseball America or MLB Pipeline, and FanGraphs listed him<\/a> in \u201chonorable mention\u201d, noting he can throw 95 mph.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Royals\u2019 pitching staff has been hard with injuries lately. Ragans was shut down after experiencing discomfort this week, and is getting a second opinion on an MRI, according to Anne Rogers<\/a>. Bubic had a setback after one rehab start, but he had a clean MRI last week, according to Joel Goldberg<\/a>. Seth Lugo missed his start on Monday after being placed on the 7-day concussion Injured List, but he is expected to return for his start on Friday. Reliever Nick Mears has been out since late May with a shoulder impingement, but could begin a rehab assignment soon. Est\u00e9vez has been throwing<\/a> and could return in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The moves this week just highlight how important it is to have organizational pitching depth. The Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers have a 5.74 team ERA, second-worst in the International League, with the most walks in the league. The Double-A Northwest Arkansas Naturals have a 6.15 ERA, worst in the Texas League. The acquisitions of Dobnak and Seabold may not move the needle much at the big league level, but they underscore how thin the Royals\u2019 pitching depth has become. With multiple members of the major league staff sidelined and few obvious internal alternatives emerging from the upper minors, Kansas City is being forced to scour the trade market for reinforcements.<\/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 announced today they have acquired pitcher Randy Dobnak from the Seattle Mariners for cash considerations. The move comes just days after the team acquired pitcher Connor Seabold from the Toronto Blue Jays for minor league pitcher Denis Samudio and cash considerations. Both players will be added to the 40-man roster, and to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2464748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[453800],"class_list":["post-2464747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kansas-city-royals-roster"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Desperate-for-pitching-Royals-acquire-pitcher-Randy-Dobnak.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464747","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=2464747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464749,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464747\/revisions\/2464749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}