\n By Anthony Franco<\/a> | The Royals signed infielder\u00a0Alejo Lopez<\/a><\/strong> to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Omaha. He backfills the organizational infield depth, as the Royals called up\u00a0Andrew Velazquez<\/a><\/strong> when they placed\u00a0Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a><\/strong> on the injured list this morning.<\/p>\n Lopez had been playing in Triple-A in the Seattle system this year. He was released a couple days ago despite a solid .302\/.379\/.419 showing across 146 plate appearances. Lopez walked more often than he struck out, but he doesn\u2019t hit for any power or steal many bases. The switch-hitting infielder has a lifetime .289\/.381\/.395 slash line over parts of six Triple-A seasons. He has bounced between the Braves, A\u2019s and Seattle systems over the past couple years without getting to the majors.<\/p>\n The 30-year-old Lopez did play parts of three seasons at the MLB level with the Reds from 2021-23. He\u2019s a career .265\/.309\/.329 hitter in 74 big league contests. Lopez is stretched at shortstop but can handle either second or third base. The Royals have also been without Maikel Garcia<\/a><\/strong> for the last month, which pushed\u00a0Josh Rojas<\/a><\/strong> to the MLB level. Lopez joins\u00a0Abraham Toro<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0Brandon Drury<\/a><\/strong> among the depth infielders in Omaha.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\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.mlbtraderumors.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Anthony Franco | at July 22, 2026 10:11pm CDT The Royals signed infielder\u00a0Alejo Lopez to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Omaha. He backfills the organizational infield depth, as the Royals called up\u00a0Andrew Velazquez when they placed\u00a0Bobby Witt Jr. on the injured list this morning. Lopez had been playing in Triple-A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2513530,"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":[495960],"class_list":["post-2513529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-alejo-lopez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Royals-Sign-Alejo-Lopez-To-Minor-League-Deal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513529","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=2513529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513531,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513529\/revisions\/2513531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n at July 22, 2026 10:11pm CDT <\/p>\n