{"id":511406,"date":"2026-01-08T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/511406\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:10:12","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-kansas-clay-county-may-be-done-talking-royals-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/511406\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Kansas, Clay County may be done talking Royals ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">I don\u2019t believe Estevez will go anywhere, but there\u2019s a voice in the back of my head that wonders a little bit. The reason I\u2019d be very surprised if he\u2019s moved is that he stabilized the closer\u2019s role last year, no matter what so many believed during the season. But he\u2019s also considered a supremely important voice in that bullpen. We can like or dislike the idea of leadership, but the Royals (and every team) believe it\u2019s a thing, so it\u2019s there. That said, if the Royals believe they can slide Lucas Erceg into that spot and sign someone else to fill the seventh or eighth with Strahm, well, I think it\u2019s possible, though not at all probable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">And the other is India. I know people have scoffed at this, but for all the reasons the Royals think he could bounce back, there are teams who would have interest in him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t believe Estevez will go anywhere, but there\u2019s a voice in the back of my head that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511407,"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-511406","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\/115860119638544802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511406","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=511406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}