{"id":657524,"date":"2026-04-01T22:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657524\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:17:20","slug":"royals-closer-carlos-estevez-placed-on-il-with-foot-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657524\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals closer Carlos Estevez placed on IL with foot contusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"11a5df00-0945-35a5-66fe-a3a107975558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> All-Star closer <a data-player-guid=\"66dbdb56-763c-6b18-1460-25c9ad19d36d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34861\/carlos-estevez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Estevez<\/a>, who led the majors with 42 saves last season, has been placed on the injured list with a left foot contusion, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Estevez, who struggled with lower velocity during spring training, took a line drive off his foot in the ninth inning of Saturday&#8217;s loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"122673a3-bf06-4432-6950-b8a32e52ac2e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a>. He is eligible to come off the IL on April 14.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"2f2681ee-988a-0fc1-c607-3ef310d5e4a0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36618\/lucas-erceg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Erceg<\/a> could see the bulk of save opportunities while Estevez is out, with <a data-player-guid=\"a96eade2-613f-ad71-7380-76568c067f1c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39949\/john-schreiber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Schreiber<\/a> also factoring into high-leverage situations.<\/p>\n<p>In a related roster move, the Royals brought up reliever Steven Cruz from Triple-A Omaha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals All-Star closer Carlos Estevez, who led the majors with 42 saves last season, has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-657524","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116331770291214348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657524","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=657524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}