Jul 28, 2025, 05:43 PM ET<\/p>\n
Kansas City Royals<\/a> All-Star left-hander Kris Bubic<\/a> will miss the rest of the 2025 season with a left rotator cuff strain, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n Bubic walked the first four batters he faced and managed to last only 2\u2154 innings<\/a> against Cleveland<\/a> on Saturday. He needed 42 pitches to get through the first inning, and he wound up allowing four runs and three hits in his shortest start since Sept. 18, 2022.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n He said he has experienced some shoulder soreness for much of the season, but he has been able to pitch through it at a breakthrough level. Even with the rocky start Saturday, he has a 2.55 ERA — the fifth-best mark in the American League.<\/p>\n The news came one day after the Royals agreed to a two-year, $46 million extension<\/a> with right-hander Seth Lugo<\/a>, reaffirming Kansas City’s intentions ahead of the trade deadline to pursue a playoff spot in a wide-open American League.<\/p>\n Aside from Lugo, the Royals’ rotation has thinned considerably. Left-hander Cole Ragans<\/a> remains on the IL with a strained rotator cuff and is not expected back until late August, and right-hander Michael Lorenzen is progressing from his strained left oblique but might need to make a rehab start before he returns to the Royals in August.<\/p>\n