{"id":509487,"date":"2026-01-07T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/509487\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:03:33","slug":"kansas-city-royals-manager-matt-quatraro-agrees-to-3-year-contract-extension-though-2029-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/509487\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro agrees to 3-year contract extension though 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>Advertisement<\/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>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro has agreed to a three-year contract extension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,135,936,2123,55,2596,2595,2602,22258,4,5958,14325,252,860],"class_list":["post-509487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-matt-quatraro","tag-mike-matheny","tag-mlb","tag-mo","tag-quatraro","tag-royals","tag-stephen-vogt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115853721897099574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509487","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=509487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}