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The Royals have signed Vince Velasquez<\/a><\/strong> to a minors contract and assigned the veteran righty to Triple-A Omaha, as per Velasquez\u2019s MLB.com profile page<\/a>.\u00a0 Velasquez elected free agency on June 30 rather than accept an outright assignment to the Cubs\u2019 Triple-A squad.<\/p>\n The right-hander signed a minor league deal with Chicago in February, and the Cubs twice selected Velasquez\u2019s contract to the active roster and then quickly designated him for assignment and outrighted him after Velasquez cleared waivers.\u00a0 Because Velasquez has been outrighted in the past, he has the ability to reject any outright assignments in favor of free agency, and he took that route after his previous DFA only to soon re-sign with the Cubs on a fresh minor league contract.<\/p>\n This time around, however, Velasquez has opted for a change of scenery in Kansas City\u2019s organization.\u00a0 While the Cubs\u2019 unending string of pitching injuries would\u2019ve seemed to provide an opportunity for Velasquez to return to Chicago at some point this season, it\u2019s possible he saw the Royals (a likely deadline seller) as a better avenue to an open roster spot when and if K.C. moves some players at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n Velasquez\u2019s two cups of coffee on the Cubs\u2019 26-man roster saw him toss 3 1\/3 scoreless innings over two appearances.\u00a0 This marked Velasquez\u2019s first bit of Major League action since 2023, and the righty has now appeared in parts in 10 MLB seasons since making his debut with the Astros back in 2015.\u00a0 Since his previous big league stint with the Pirates in 2023, Velasquez missed 2024 recovering from elbow surgery before pitching in 2025 in both the KBO League and in the Guardians\u2019 farm system.<\/p>\n The 34-year-old Velasquez can provide the Royals with some depth as either a starter or long reliever, though his numbers with Triple-A Iowa this season are nothing to write home about.\u00a0 Velasquez has a 6.15 ERA and 16.2% walk rate over 33 2\/3 innings for Iowa, with a more respectable 26% strikeout rate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.mlbtraderumors.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Royals have signed Vince Velasquez to a minors contract and assigned the veteran righty to Triple-A Omaha, as per Velasquez\u2019s MLB.com profile page.\u00a0 Velasquez elected free agency on June 30 rather than accept an outright assignment to the Cubs\u2019 Triple-A squad. The right-hander signed a minor league deal with Chicago in February, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2070850,"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":[491936],"class_list":["post-2497980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-vincent-velasquez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Coaching-Notes-Royals-Pirates-Diamondbacks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497980","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=2497980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497981,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497980\/revisions\/2497981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}