{"id":68147,"date":"2025-07-16T21:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68147\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:21:15","slug":"pirates-trade-adam-frazier-to-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68147\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Trade Adam Frazier To Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

10:45am:<\/strong> The teams have announced the trade. Pittsburgh optioned Devanney to Triple-A Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

9:27am:<\/strong> The Royals are set to acquire infielder\/outfielder Adam Frazier<\/a><\/strong> from the Pirates, reports<\/a> Robert Murray of FanSided. Kansas City will send infielder Cam Devanney<\/a><\/strong> back to Pittsburgh in the trade. Devanney was just selected to the major league roster by the Royals eight days ago but has not appeared in a big league game. Since both players being exchanged are on their respective teams\u2019 40-man rosters, neither club will need a corresponding move to make the swap official.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a reunion for Frazier and the Royals, as the now-33-year-old veteran spent the 2024 season with Kansas City, struggling to a .202\/.282\/.294 batting line in 294 plate appearances. Frazier has had a much better go in 2025, returning to the club that drafted him (Pittsburgh) and hitting .255\/.318\/.336. That\u2019s still below-average, but Frazier has been more productive since mid-May. He\u2019s hitting .302\/.356\/.387 across his past 119 trips to the plate \u2014 albeit with a .360 average on balls in play that he\u2019s not likely to sustain over a larger period of time.<\/p>\n

Frazier has played second base, left field and right field in his return to Pittsburgh so far. He\u2019s spent the majority of his time on the field at second base, but the Pirates have been using him in the outfield more over the past month or so. He\u2019ll give the Royals a left-handed bat on what had been an all-right-handed bench and also provide manager Matt Quatraro with an option at multiple positions.<\/p>\n

Jonathan India<\/a><\/strong> and Michael Massey<\/a><\/strong> lead the Royals in innings at second base this year, but both have struggled (and Massey is currently on the injured list). The Royals have used a remarkable 10 players in left field already this season, none of whom have managed to be all that productive. Frazier, presumably, will soon become the 11th player to take reps in left field for K.C. this season.<\/p>\n

Frazier signed a one-year deal with the Pirates, which contained a modest $1.525MM guarantee. He\u2019ll be a free agent at season\u2019s end and has just under $615K of his salary yet to be paid out between now and season\u2019s end. The Royals will take on all of that sum.<\/p>\n

Devanney, 28, was a 15th-round pick by the 2019 Brewers. Milwaukee traded him to Kansas City in exchange for righty Taylor Clarke<\/a><\/strong> back in 2023. He\u2019s enjoying a career year in Triple-A but is in his fourth trip through that level at this point. The righty-hitting Devanney is slashing .272\/.366\/.565 with 18 home runs, 14 doubles, three triples, an 11.8% walk rate and a 24.3% strikeout rate in 288 plate appearances at the top minor league level. He\u2019s gone 3-for-4 in stolen base attempts as well.<\/p>\n

The Royals have used Devanney primarily at shortstop in Omaha, but he\u2019s logged plenty of time at third base and second base as well. He\u2019s primarily an infielder but has gotten some nominal exposure to left field, suiting up for six games there (two in 2025). The Pirates are using Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/a><\/strong> as their primary shortstop, but he\u2019s quite likely to be traded in the next two weeks as well. Devanney could see plenty of time at short for the remainder of the season after Kiner-Falefa is moved, but if he has a long-term role with the team it\u2019ll likely be as a right-handed utility option off the bench. Since last week was Devanney\u2019s first selection to the major league roster, he still has a full slate of three minor league options remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10:45am: The teams have announced the trade. Pittsburgh optioned Devanney to Triple-A Indianapolis. 9:27am: The Royals are set…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3381,48299,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-68147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-adam-frazier","9":"tag-cam-devanney","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114865011650663335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}