{"id":86608,"date":"2025-06-07T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/86608\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:00:09","slug":"royals-select-trevor-richards-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/86608\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Select Trevor Richards – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Royals announced that right-hander Trevor Richards<\/a>\u2019 minor league contract has been selected to the 26-man roster.\u00a0 Right-hander Jonathan Bowlan<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A Omaha in the corresponding move.<\/p>\n

It was almost exactly a month ago K.C. signed Richards, shortly after the reliever had been released from a previous minors deal with the Cubs.\u00a0 Since Richards wasn\u2019t called up to the majors during his brief tenure in Wrigleyville, his first appearance with the Royals will mark his season debut, and an eighth straight season of MLB action for the 32-year-old.<\/p>\n

It has been some time, however, since Richards has been particularly effective at the big league level.\u00a0 Since Opening Day 2022, Richards has a 4.95 ERA and a 12% walk rate over 202 innings with the Blue Jays and Twins.\u00a0 While Richards managed an impressive 31.4% strikeout rate during the 2022-23 seasons, that statistic plummeted to 22.4% over 65 1\/3 frames with Toronto and Minnesota last year.<\/p>\n

The struggles carried over into Richards\u2019 minor league performance this season, though he has somewhat righted the ship since joining the Royals organization.\u00a0 Richards had a 7.27 ERA in 8 2\/3 innings with the Cubs\u2019 Triple-A affiliate, but a far more impressive 1.69 ERA in 10 2\/3 innings over 10 innings in Omaha.\u00a0 With a 22.4K% and a 10.2BB% rate for the Royals\u2019 top affiliate, Richards isn\u2019t exactly in top form, yet it was enough to get him a look in the Show with Kansas City in need of a fresh arm.<\/p>\n

Bowlan pitched 1 1\/3 innings in yesterday\u2019s 7-2 Royals loss to the White Sox, and he was charged with five runs (three earned) while allowing four walks and two hits.\u00a0 Richards has often been a multi-inning reliever over his career, so he can eat some innings should circumstances arise this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals announced that right-hander Trevor Richards\u2019 minor league contract has been selected to the 26-man roster.\u00a0 Right-hander…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,13041,4,3550],"class_list":{"0":"post-86608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jonathan-bowlan","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-trevor-richards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114643391827586174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86608","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=86608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}