{"id":325019,"date":"2025-12-02T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325019\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:16:08","slug":"royals-open-to-trading-starter-picollo-says-no-one-off-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325019\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals open to trading starter, Picollo says no one &#8216;off limits&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals are open to trading a starting pitcher, and general manager J.J. Picollo said no one is &#8220;off limits&#8221; in the right deal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our starting pitching, we have some depth there,&#8221; Picollo said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/11\/29\/sports\/sunday-baseball-notes-velocity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Boston Globe&#8217;s Alex Speier<\/a>. &#8220;A lot of teams are looking for starting pitching, so if we have what they may be interested in, and they have an outfielder that would be of interest, then there&#8217;s potentially the opportunity to make a deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Royals are projected to enter the 2026 campaign with Cole Ragans, Michael Wacha, Seth Lugo, Kris Bubic, and Noah Cameron in the rotation. <\/p>\n<p>While Picollo said the Royals are reluctant to trade Wacha or Lugo, he added anything is possible if the return fits his club&#8217;s needs. That appears to include Ragans, who owns a 3.32 ERA and 10.8 K\/9 in 57 starts for the Royals, and is under contract until 2029.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There would have to be a really big return for one (starter) in particular,&#8221; Picollo said.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals missed the playoffs last season despite finishing the campaign with the seventh-best rotation by ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Royals are open to trading a starting pitcher, and general manager J.J. Picollo said no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-325019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}