Royals will be restored to left-handed Cole Ragans According to MLB.com’s Anne Rogers, tomorrow’s 60-day injury list. Kansas City already has a 40-man lineup, so unless there are other 40 moves combined with the Ragans’ return, they just need to clean up a spot on the active roster.
Ragans, 28, has been tense in the offseason for more than three months due to the tense rotator cuffs on his left shoulder. His absence has been the main reason Kansas City has been on the slide in the standings and the team is out of the playoffs, although Lagan is certainly not the only rotation member to face health difficulties this year.
Kris BubicHis own rotator sleeve pull ended his season in late July. Seth Lugo IL was once fixed due to injuries to fingers and lower back. Michael Lorenson Lack of slash pressure for more than one month is missing. Michael Wacha On the list of concussions over the past week, it is expected to return tonight’s game. Alec Marsh There hasn’t been a pitch for the entire season due to a shoulder impact. This is a far cry from the 2024 season, when the Royals couldn’t have had four pitchers having at least 29 starts (5 starts at least 25 starts).
Despite this, Ragans’ losses are arguably the most destructive. Southpaw sat on an ugly 5.18 ERA at the start of health, although most of the damage to him was in his last three games before climbing onto the shoulder issues. Ragans carried a 3.79 ERA in mid-May and hit double-digit strikeouts at the start of four of the first seven games of the season. And, of course, the left-handed’s 2024 breakthrough is one of the driving forces behind the Royals’ return to the playoffs. Ragans scored 186 1/3 innings with a 3.14 ERA in 32 games last year, hitting 29.3% from three-pointers and walking 8.8%, and voting for his own efforts in the CY Young vote.
At 75-75, the Royals have not been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, but they have 6.5 games in Al wildcard chase with 12 games left. They sneak into the fields, which requires a border miracle. Even with little to play with in terms of the 2025 results, Ragan’s return gives him a chance to enter the offseason as his shoulder troubles are behind him. If he looks sharp in the two starts now and after the season is over, Kansas City will certainly feel better about the staff next year. Ragans’ ERA released 4.35 ERA and while recovering in recent weeks, he faced 20 hits (46.5%) with 43 batsmen (46.5%).
