{"id":507928,"date":"2026-01-06T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/507928\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:21:12","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-could-east-village-become-an-option-for-a-downtown-ballpark-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/507928\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Could East Village become an option for a downtown ballpark again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Royals wanted to improve their outfield and although their first choice would have been to trade with Boston for Jarren Duran or Wilyer Abreu, they did a solid job by dealing for the Brewers\u2019 Isaac Collins and signing Lane Thomas in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Both players are platoon-type outfielders but with Matt Quatraro managing they\u2019ll be in great shape in terms of getting the most out of both players. Thomas can really rake against left-handed pitchers (.292\/.359\/.500 against lefties over his career), although he doesn\u2019t hit well against right-handers. Collins was one of the better rookie outfielders in the NL in 2025, playing well defensively and getting on-base at a good clip while stealing 16 bases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The best move they made was landing left-handed reliever Matt Strahm from the Phillies in a trade. Strahm, who began his big-league career in KC, punched out 70 batters in 62 1\/3 innings with a 1.075 WHIP and 2.74 ERA for the Phillies in 2025. He\u2019ll join Lucas Erceg in setting up for closer Carlos Est\u00e9vez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals wanted to improve their outfield and although their first choice would have been to trade with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,38557],"class_list":{"0":"post-507928","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-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-royals-rumblings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115848602202357242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507928","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=507928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}