Tag: Royals

Royals agree to 1-year deal with Frasor

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Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) – The Kansas City Royals have signed reliever Jason Frasor to a one-year deal with a mutual option for 2016. Frasor will reportedly earn a base salary of $1.25 million in 2015 with a $2 million […]

OF Willingham announces retirement

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(SportsNetwork.com) – Free agent outfielder Josh Willingham has chosen to retire after 11 major league seasons. ESPN.com first reported the news on Monday. Willingham’s wife, Ginger, later confirmed her husband’s decision on her Twitter account. Willingham established career bests of […]

Butler officially signs with A’s

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Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – Designated hitter Billy Butler signed a three-year deal with the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday. Financial terms of the deal were not released, but reports on Tuesday had the deal worth $30 million. The 28-year-old hit .271 […]

Royals sign Ryan Roberts

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Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) – The Kansas City Royals have signed infielder Ryan Roberts to a minor league deal with an invite to major league spring training. Roberts, 34, appeared in eight games last season for the Boston Red Sox, […]

Royals pick up option on Davis

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Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) – The Kansas City Royals ensured they’ll have all three main members of their dominant bullpen under contract for next season by exercising their 2015 team option on Wade Davis. Davis, who will earn $7 million […]

Royals make qualifying offer to Shields

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Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) – The Kansas City Royals tendered starting pitcher James Shields a qualifying offer on Monday. Shields has until Monday, Nov. 10 to accept the offer or become a free agent. If Shields decides to accept, he […]

Rounding Third: Giants ride one-man wrecking crew to a title

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Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – The San Francisco Giants got a combined nine outs from their starting pitchers in Games 6 and 7. Yet here they are celebrating a third World Series title in five years. How is that even possible? […]

Rounding Third: Taveras’ death overshadows Giants’ Game 5 win

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Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – The San Francisco Giants moved one step closer to their third World Series title in five years on Sunday. But, whatever transpired on the field seemed a bit inconsequential to what happened down in the Dominican […]