{"id":2514324,"date":"2026-07-23T17:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2514324"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:09:56","slug":"royals-add-infield-depth-with-latest-free-agent-deal-to-acquire-alejo-lopez-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-add-infield-depth-with-latest-free-agent-deal-to-acquire-alejo-lopez-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Add Infield Depth With Latest Free Agent Deal To Acquire Alejo Lopez – Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIn a move that drew scant attention, the Royals moved Wednesday to shore up their infield depth, an area weakened by injuries to a pair of key players. The club signed free agent Alejo Lopez<\/a> just two days after his release earlier in the week<\/a> by Tacoma, the Seattle Mariners\u2019 Triple-A affiliate.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe minor league deal, which lands Lopez at Triple-A Omaha, wasn\u2019t what Kansas City fans were looking for as they wait anxiously for the Royals to strengthen themselves on the trade deadline market. But it\u2019s noteworthy given the franchise\u2019s need for another versatile infielder \u2014 Wednesday\u2019s move of All-Star shortstop <\/a>Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> to the Injured List, where he joined standout third baseman Maikel Garcia<\/a>, forced Kansas City to call up Omaha infielder Andrew Velazquez<\/a> and start him at short for Wednesday\u2019s series-sweep-clinching victory over San Francisco.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tFortunately, Lopez, who was hitting .302 with a .379 OBP and .798 OPS when Seattle let him go, comes with some (albeit limited) major league experience \u2014 in 74 games and 181 plate appearances across parts of the 2021, 2022, and 2023 seasons, he slashed .265\/.309\/.639 for Cincinnati.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThat his small-sample-size major league career 73 wRC+<\/a> isn\u2019t stunning, and he lacks significant power (one big league and 34 minor league homers since the Reds took him in the 27th round of 2015\u2019s amateur draft), suggests he may not see Kauffman Stadium anytime soon. But his versatility \u2014 defensively, he\u2019s done everything but catch professionally, and has appeared most often at second and third \u00a0\u2014 gives the Royals another option if the injury bug that\u2019s plagued them all season strikes again.<\/span>\n<\/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 royalskeep.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a move that drew scant attention, the Royals moved Wednesday to shore up their infield depth, an area weakened by injuries to a pair of key players. The club signed free agent Alejo Lopez just two days after his release earlier in the week by Tacoma, the Seattle Mariners\u2019 Triple-A affiliate. The minor league […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2514325,"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":[495960,487317,91466,313842],"class_list":["post-2514324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-alejo-lopez","tag-andrew-velazquez","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-maikel-garcia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Royals-Add-Infield-Depth-With-Latest-Free-Agent-Deal-To.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514324","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=2514324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514326,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514324\/revisions\/2514326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}