{"id":26683,"date":"2025-07-27T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26683\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:42:07","slug":"royals-to-acquire-randal-grichuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26683\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals To Acquire Randal Grichuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diamondbacks\u2019 sell-off continues this evening as they\u2019re trading outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grichra01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Randal Grichuk<\/a> to the Royals, according to a report from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteveGilbertMLB\/status\/1949265485008134169\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve Gilbert of MLB.com<\/a>. The return headed to Arizona is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>Grichuk, 34 next month, is a veteran of 12 MLB seasons who has spent the past two years in Arizona. While he played mostly center field for the Cardinals and Blue Jays in his younger days, more recently Grichuk has fashioned a role for himself as a corner outfielder who primarily chips in against left-handed pitching. That\u2019s certainly a piece the Royals could make use of, as they\u2019ve gotten the least production from their outfield in the majors by measure of wRC+ (64) and fWAR (-2.4) this year. Kansas City has also been well below average (74 wRC+) against left-handed pitching this year; only six teams have been less productive at the dish against opposing southpaws.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Diamondbacks\u2019 sell-off continues this evening as they\u2019re trading outfielder Randal Grichuk to the Royals, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,21283,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-26683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-randal-grichuk","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}