{"id":697358,"date":"2026-05-27T07:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697358\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:01:23","slug":"royals-outright-elias-diaz-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697358\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Outright Elias D\u00edaz &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royals sent veteran catcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diazel01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elias D\u00edaz<\/a> outright to Triple-A Omaha, according to the MLB.com <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/elias-diaz-553869\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transaction log<\/a>. It\u2019s unclear if he\u2019ll report or elect free agency.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz was designated for assignment last week when K.C. recalled speedy outfielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tolbety01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Tolbert<\/a>. Kansas City had carried three catchers for the previous five weeks.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/perezsa02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Salvador Perez<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jenseca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carter Jensen<\/a> have each logged a lot of designated hitter work. D\u00edaz gave skipper Matt Quatraro a little more flexibility for rest days. Jensen and Perez have alternated starts between catcher and DH over the past four games.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old D\u00edaz picked up seven starts among his 10 games during his five weeks on the MLB roster. He popped a couple home runs and doubles apiece in 23 plate appearances. D\u00edaz has been a below-average hitter throughout his career and hadn\u2019t hit much in a tiny sample with Omaha before his call-up. He batted .204\/.270\/.337 across 283 plate appearances for the Padres a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz has a plus arm and routinely throws out base stealers at a strong rate. He graded poorly as a receiving catcher early in his career but has tightened those numbers up in recent seasons. If he reports to Omaha, he\u2019ll rejoin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mailelu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke Maile<\/a> as non-roster depth catchers whom the Royals could call upon if one of Perez or Jensen is banged up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals sent veteran catcher\u00a0Elias D\u00edaz outright to Triple-A Omaha, according to the MLB.com transaction log. It\u2019s unclear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,279878,591,85],"class_list":["post-697358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-elias-diaz","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697358","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=697358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}