{"id":2516811,"date":"2026-07-25T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2516811"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:13:46","slug":"royals-manager-matt-quatraro-back-after-brief-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-manager-matt-quatraro-back-after-brief-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals manager Matt Quatraro back after brief leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Jul 24, 2026, 01:47 PM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> manager Matt Quatraro will be back for the second game of the road series against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-tigers\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> on Friday night, the club said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Quatraro <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/royals-manager-matt-quatraro-a0cc404df1ef84ff7527d244c5e7259a\">missed the first game<\/a> of the four-game series while attending to a personal matter. The club, which announced Quatraro&#8217;s absence on Thursday, said it was expected to be a short leave.<\/p>\n<p>Bench coach Paul Hoover managed the team during Kansas City&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tigers-royals-score-b9056fb6c16c3b35269a4a8decd77188\">4-3 loss<\/a> to the Tigers on Thursday. Vance Wilson served as the interim bench coach and Jos\u00e9 Alguacil coached third base.<\/p>\n<p>After leading the club to consecutive winning seasons for the first time in a decade, Quatraro earned a three-year contract extension during the offseason that will keep him in Kansas City through 2029. The extension has a team option for 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals are fifth in the AL Central with a 43-61 record, 6 1\/2 games behind the fourth-place Tigers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.espn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 24, 2026, 01:47 PM ET Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro will be back for the second game of the road series against the Detroit Tigers on Friday night, the club said on social media. Quatraro missed the first game of the four-game series while attending to a personal matter. The club, which announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2516812,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2516811","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\/07\/Royals-manager-Matt-Quatraro-back-after-brief-leave.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516811","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=2516811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516813,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516811\/revisions\/2516813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2516812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}