{"id":40077,"date":"2025-07-27T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40077\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:59:09","slug":"royals-reportedly-acquire-veteran-outfielder-randal-grichuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40077\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals reportedly acquire veteran outfielder Randal Grichuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"t7ZM70\">The Royals have acquired outfielder Randal Grichuk from the Arizona Diamondbacks, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1949266194697216378\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to ESPN writer Jeff Passan<\/a>. The 33-year-old was hitting .243\/.280\/.462 with seven home runs in 186 plate appearances this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1949269170043904272\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon Heyman reports<\/a> the Royals will give up pitcher Andrew Hoffmann. <\/p>\n<p id=\"hGRwuK\">Grichuk is a 12-year veteran with the Cardinals, Blue Jays, Rockies, Angels, and Diamondbacks, with a lifetime line of .252\/.299\/.468. The right-handed hitter has been a platoon player the last two seasons, but his platoon split was less pronounced this year. He hit just .230\/.281\/.469 against lefties this year, although he hit .319\/.386\/.528 against them last year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9OQqb5\">The Royals tried to sign Grichuk this past off-season, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anne__rogers\/status\/1886916203232235564\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports last winter from Anne Rogers<\/a>. He eventually signed a one-year, $5 million deal with the Diamondbacks and has a $5 million mutual option with a $3 million buyout.<\/p>\n<p id=\"hGCyFh\">The addition, while modest, represents an upgrade for an outfield that has struggled to hit this year. Coming into today, Royals outfielders have hit .208\/.262\/.311, and their 56 wRC+ is by far the worst in baseball. Hoffmann has given up six runs, although just two earned, in 4 2\u20443 innings over three outings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals have acquired outfielder Randal Grichuk from the Arizona Diamondbacks, according to ESPN writer Jeff Passan. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[32423,424,32426,32424,32425,28497,899,25696,32428,32427,99,24797],"class_list":["post-40077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-acquire","tag-front-page","tag-grichuk","tag-outfielder","tag-randal","tag-reportedly","tag-review","tag-royals","tag-royals-trade-rumors","tag-royals-trades-transactions-free-agents-contracts","tag-sports","tag-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40077","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=40077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}