{"id":286601,"date":"2025-11-15T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286601\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:35:07","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-rumors-rumors-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286601\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Rumors, rumors, rumors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">We talked about this a little on the podcast, but the allure of Bubic over signing a free agent is you have the upside of a guy who can pitch like a one or a two if he\u2019s healthy, but you don\u2019t have to commit five to eight years and you don\u2019t have to pay him that much for one year. The question is what does he bring back coming off the injury?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In a conversation with a scout for a non-Royals team, he made the point that a physical could ensure everything is good to go. But it can also make things awkward if the team doesn\u2019t like the results because they might agree to a trade and have the player or players traded find out they were moved and then have to cancel the deal. It\u2019s not something you can\u2019t work around, but I hadn\u2019t thought about that wrinkle. Still, I\u2019m sort of leaning toward Bubic getting moved and maybe sooner than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We talked about this a little on the podcast, but the allure of Bubic over signing a free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,165341,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-286601","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-mlb","11":"tag-royals-rumblings","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286601","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=286601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}