{"id":388043,"date":"2026-01-04T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:38:09","slug":"kansas-city-royals-manager-matt-quatraro-agrees-to-3-year-contract-extension-though-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388043\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro agrees to 3-year contract extension though 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro has agreed to a three-year contract extension though 2029. His deal includes a team option for 2030. Quatraro replaced&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP) \u2014 Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro has agreed to a three-year contract extension though 2029.<\/p>\n<p>His deal includes a team option for 2030, the Royals said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Quatraro replaced Mike Matheny after the 2022 season and has led the Royals to a 224-262 record in three years.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City improved from 56-106 during Quatraro\u2019s first season to 86-76 in 2024, and the Royals then went 82-80 last year for their first consecutive winning seasons since 2013-15.<\/p>\n<p>Quatraro finished second to Cleveland&#8217;s Stephen Vogt in 2024 AL Manager of the Year voting.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro has agreed to a three-year contract extension though 2029. His deal includes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-388043","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\/388043","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=388043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}