{"id":27262,"date":"2025-07-28T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27262\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:40:13","slug":"seth-lugo-gets-royals-contract-extension-to-end-mlb-trade-deadline-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27262\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Lugo gets Royals contract extension to end MLB trade deadline speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seth Lugo will remain in Kansas City for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

The right-hander and the Royals are finalizing a multi-year contract extension, according to multiple reports on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The new deal is expected to be a deal worth about $46 million over two years and includes a vesting option with Kansas City, The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

No confirmation has officially come from the club, but the news ends speculation that Lugo could have been moved at the trade deadline, which is quickly approaching this Thursday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

The former Met had originally signed with Kansas City a three-year, $45 million contract that included a player option after this season, which many people believed Lugo would take advantage of.<\/p>\n

\"Seth<\/p>\n

Seth Lugo is finalizing a contract extension with the Royals. David Banks-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

However, it became clearer that the Royals wanted to not only keep Lugo through the deadline but extend him to keep him in Kansas City for a while.<\/p>\n

As recently as Sunday morning, USA Today reported that the Royals didn\u2019t have much interest in trading Lugo and were looking to ink him to an extension.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Lugo has been one of the Royals\u2019 top starters since he signed with the ballclub as a free agent in 2023 and finished second in American League Cy Young Award voting in 2024.<\/p>\n

Lugo has recorded a 3.60 ERA or lower for the past five seasons of his big league career has posted a 2.95 ERA this season in 113 innings pitched.<\/p>\n

The Royals right-hander has a 7-5 record in 19 starts and 99 strikeouts to his name.<\/p>\n

\"Getty<\/p>\n

Getty Images<\/p>\n

Kansas City is the third team Lugo has played for in the course of his major league career.<\/p>\n

Lugo played seven seasons for the Mets after being selected 34th overall in the 2011 MLB Draft, pitching more than 490 innings before leaving as a free agent and signing with the Padres on Dec. 22, 2022.<\/p>\n

After one year in San Diego, he opted out of his contract and signed with the Royals during the winter of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Lugo will remain in Kansas City for the foreseeable future. The right-hander and the Royals are finalizing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,11241,13521,591,5886,16087,85,6111,25759],"class_list":{"0":"post-27262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-contract-extension","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-seth-lugo","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-the-mets","17":"tag-the-royals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262","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=27262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}