{"id":862926,"date":"2026-08-21T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862926\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:08:18","slug":"royals-to-place-maikel-garcia-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862926\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals To Place Maikel Garcia On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royals are likely to place\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garcima01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maikel Garcia<\/a> on the 10-day injured list tomorrow, manager Matt Quatraro told reporters (link via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/maikel-garcia-exits-left-leg-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anne Rogers of MLB.com<\/a>). He was diagnosed with a left hamstring strain after going for an MRI on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia made an early exit from today\u2019s win over the Athletics. He was on second and pulled up as he rounded third base on a single to left field. The A\u2019s easily threw him out, though it didn\u2019t stop Kansas City from completing a four-game sweep.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/loftini01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Loftin<\/a> moved in from right field to play third base, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ravejo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Rave<\/a> came off the bench to finish the game in right.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a frustrating year for Garcia, who has only made it into 73 games. He went down in late June with a muscle strain in his left hand. K.C. activated him on Monday only to lose him three days later to a new injury. He has a league average .269\/.324\/.385 slash across 309 plate appearances, a step back from his .800 OPS and 16-homer season in 2025. Garcia has continued to play excellent defense at third base and would\u2019ve garnered serious consideration for a second straight Gold Glove had he stayed healthy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rojasjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-08-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Rojas<\/a>, who consented to an optional assignment when Garcia was reinstated, will probably be recalled from Triple-A Omaha. He and Loftin can split the third base reps for as long as Garcia is down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals are likely to place\u00a0Maikel Garcia on the 10-day injured list tomorrow, manager Matt Quatraro told reporters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,157353,591,85],"class_list":["post-862926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862926","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=862926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}