{"id":738773,"date":"2026-06-15T18:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738773\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T18:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:32:05","slug":"blue-jays-trade-connor-seabold-to-royals-for-minor-league-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738773\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays trade Connor Seabold to Royals for minor-league pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto traded the right-hander to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for minor-league righty Denis Samudio and cash considerations, the teams announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Seabold, who was designated for assignment by the Blue Jays after spring training but reacquired in a trade with the Detroit Tigers in May, appeared in five games with Toronto, allowing three earned runs over 3.1 innings.<\/p>\n<p>His results were better over 11 appearances with the Tigers, with whom he posted a 3.45 ERA across 15.2 frames.<\/p>\n<p>Samudio, 21, has appeared in six games across two levels of the low minors, recording a 4.12 ERA with 22 strikeouts and a .183 opponents batting average over 19.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Panama native joined the Royals as an international free agent last year.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto had a need for roster space ahead of the expected upcoming returns of right-handed reliever Yimi Garcia and starter Shane Bieber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto traded the right-hander to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for minor-league righty Denis Samudio and cash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-738773","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\/738773","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=738773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}