{"id":450578,"date":"2023-01-03T21:08:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=450578"},"modified":"2023-01-05T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T16:14:42","slug":"kansas-city-royals-ship-slugger-ryan-o-hearn-to-the-baltimore-orioles-trade-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/kansas-city-royals-ship-slugger-ryan-o-hearn-to-the-baltimore-orioles-trade-details","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals ship slugger Ryan O&#8217;Hearn to the Baltimore Orioles: Trade details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals needed Ryan O&#8217;Hearn&#8217;s roster spot for veteran pitcher and free-agent addition Jordan Lyles, so they designated O&#8217;Hearn for assignment last week. On Tuesday afternoon, the Royals sent the left-handed hitting slugger O&#8217;Hearn to Lyles&#8217; former club, the Baltimore Orioles, in a trade in exchange for cash considerations. On November 15, O&#8217;Hearn agreed to a one-year contract worth $1.4 million with an additional $250,000 in performance bonuses to avoid salary arbitration. The elimination of defensive infield shifts played a factor into the Royals decision to hold onto O&#8217;Hearn when he appeared at least a possible candidate to be non-tendered due to the presence of left-handed hitting first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino and Nick Pratto on the 40-man roster. The idea at that time had been that O&#8217;Hearn, who made consistently hard contact and has above-average power, might see a significant improvement in his offensive production in 2023. O&#8217;Hearn was one of four players who remained on the active<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Hearn&#8217;s tenure with the Royals ends weeks after the club signed him to a deal this winter to avoid arbitration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}