{"id":506634,"date":"2026-01-05T18:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/506634\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:30:21","slug":"mlb-news-matt-quatraro-kansas-city-royals-zach-eflin-bo-bichette-yankees-trade-targets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/506634\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB News: Matt Quatraro, Kansas City Royals, Zach Eflin, Bo Bichette, Yankees trade targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Welcome to the first full week of 2026. Posting windows for Japanese talent are closing, so we\u2019re seeing the final results of those moves. The hot stove is also getting hot again, so we\u2019re going to see things pick up pace with the trade and free agent markets, which is something we look forward to every year. The countdown to Spring Training is also underway (it\u2019s this year! It\u2019s less than two months away!), so it\u2019s already starting to feel like we are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With that in mind, we have a short links roundup today.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A quick note: the final embed of today\u2019s links post contains minor spoilers for the finale of Stranger Things, so if you want to avoid those, stop scrolling after the second embed!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Some fun baseball-themed moments from the Stranger Things finale (scroll back now if you don\u2019t want any minor spoilers!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And tomorrow will be a better day than today, Buster. Make it so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the first full week of 2026. Posting windows for Japanese talent are closing, so we\u2019re seeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,377,88,136,350,936,2123,55,2596,2595,2602,4,252,151,4658,1035,142,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-506634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bo-bichette","11":"tag-brewers","12":"tag-free-agent","13":"tag-kansas","14":"tag-kansas-city","15":"tag-kansas-city-royals","16":"tag-kansascity","17":"tag-kansascityroyals","18":"tag-matt-quatraro","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-royals","21":"tag-spring-training","22":"tag-tatsuya-imai","23":"tag-trevor-story","24":"tag-yankees","25":"tag-zach-eflin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115843919033213583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}