{"id":26346,"date":"2025-07-28T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26346\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T01:46:08","slug":"sources-royals-keeping-seth-lugo-on-multiyear-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26346\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources &#8212; Royals keeping Seth Lugo on multiyear extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right-hander <a data-player-guid=\"701f498a-81c2-4742-4511-0c17889754e4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34873\/seth-lugo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Lugo<\/a> and the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"11a5df00-0945-35a5-66fe-a3a107975558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> are finalizing a multiyear contract extension, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Lugo, 35, had been regarded as one of the best potential trade candidates this deadline season, and one of the top free agent arms this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Lugo has posted ERAs of 3.60 or lower for the past five seasons despite having below-average fastball velocity and good-not-great strikeout rates. The right-hander&#8217;s ability to strand runners and limit hard contact comes in part due to his nine different pitches, which gives him the flexibility to adjust in-game &#8212; a luxury shared by only a handful of MLB starters.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Kiley McDaniel and Jeff Passan contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-hander Seth Lugo and the Kansas City Royals are finalizing a multiyear contract extension, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-26346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}