{"id":678200,"date":"2026-05-18T20:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678200\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:39:15","slug":"royals-kris-bubic-placed-on-15-day-injured-list-with-elbow-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678200\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Kris Bubic placed on 15-day injured list with elbow soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals&#8217; rotation took another hit on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Bubic has been placed on the 15-day injured list with left elbow soreness, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Royals\/status\/2056451333071221111?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the team announced.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right-handed depth starter Eli Morgan was recalled from triple-A Omaha in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n<p>Bubic struggled in his most recent start, allowing eight baserunners and five runs over a season-low four innings. <\/p>\n<p>The left-hander has a 4.11 ERA with 51 strikeouts and 26 walks over 50.1 innings this season. Last year, his 2.55 ERA led all Royals&#8217; starters, and his 3.2 wins above replacement were second.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old joins Kansas City ace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/cole-ragans\/9941a844-9315-4f2f-9fc2-533c07b625f2\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"9941a844-9315-4f2f-9fc2-533c07b625f2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cole Ragans<\/a> on the injured list. Ragans also initially experienced left elbow soreness before being diagnosed with an elbow impingement.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals are tied for last place in the American League Central with a 20-27 record and begin a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox on Monday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Royals&#8217; rotation took another hit on Monday. Kris Bubic has been placed on the 15-day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-678200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678200","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=678200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}