*****Official 2024 Royals Season Repository Thread*****

[ChiefsCountry]

Year Two of the Matt Quatraro tenure. Time to take a step up this year. Active in free agency and trades this offseason. A new look pitching rotation and bullpen. Will the young players take the leap up offensively? Bobby Witt extension? New stadium? Will Vinny recover from injury? Salvy taking aim at the Royals record book? Will Cole Ragans turn into the best Royals starting pitcher since Greinke 1.0?

Free Agents/Trades Acquisitions
Seth Lugo, SP
Michael Wacha, SP
Kyle Wright, SP
Hunter Renfroe, OF/DH
Will Smith, RP
Chris Stratton, RP
Nick Anderson, RP
Adam Frazier, 2B
Garrett Hampson, INF/OF
Matt Sauer, RP

[cmh6476]

Originally Posted by BWillie

It appears he would hit RHP better and Garcia hits LHP better. Some kind of creative platoon?

who gets DFA'd to make room for dejong and erceg?

[siberian khatru]

Oakland will receive RHP Mason Barnett, RHP Will Klein and OF Jared Dickey from Kansas City in exchange for Erceg, who is under club control for five more years through 2029. https://t.co/08HpC9vad9

— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) July 30, 2024

[dlphg9]

That's fine with me

[cmh6476]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

Oakland will receive RHP Mason Barnett, RHP Will Klein and OF Jared Dickey from Kansas City in exchange for Erceg, who is under club control for five more years through 2029. https://t.co/08HpC9vad9

— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) July 30, 2024

should we care about losing any of these guys?

[dlphg9]

Great trade after that horrendous shit yesterday.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by cmh6476

should we care about losing any of these guys?

Will Klein has been up for a few games before. He didn't do too well.

[cmh6476]

Will Klein had just been recalled to the MLB club following the injuries to Shrieber and Harvey, so I assume he opens the spot for Erceg.

[siberian khatru]

Barnett was the Royals' Minor League Pitcher of the Year last year

[cmh6476]

Loftin headed back to Omaha, probably for DeJong? Won't they still need to open up a spot on the 40 man?

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

Barnett was the Royals' Minor League Pitcher of the Year last year

Hasn't been good this year though.

[WhawhaWhat]

Today the #Royals reportedly acquired RHP Lucas Erceg ($8.5M surplus trade value) from the #Athletics in exchange for RHPs Mason Barnett ($2.7M) and Will Klein ($2.4M) and OF Jared Dickey (not yet in system).

Deal is tentatively accepted by our model, pending Dickey's addition.

— Baseball Trade Values (@BaseballValues) July 30, 2024

Today the #Royals reportedly acquired SS Paul DeJong ($0.8M surplus trade value) from the #WhiteSox in exchange for RHP Jarold Rosado (not yet in system)

The deal is tentatively accepted by our model, pending Rosado's addition.

— Baseball Trade Values (@BaseballValues) July 30, 2024

[cmh6476]

are we done, or do I need to keep going all F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 on twitter?

[poolboy]

Lucas was the As top setup up man...who is our closer now?

[cmh6476]

Erceg will be pushing it to make tonight's game:

The flight between San Francisco (SFO) and Chicago (ORD) typically takes about 4 hours and 17 minutes.

[WhawhaWhat]

Royals fans: you’re getting a dude who will do ANYTHING to win a baseball game. A guy who will pitch ANYWHERE at ANY ATIME for HOWEVER long he’s asked. He has great stuff & is a COMPETITOR. I will root for Lucas wherever he goes. KC fans, you’ve got a good one. Take care of him.

— Dallas Braden (@DALLASBRADEN209) July 30, 2024