{"id":79979,"date":"2024-07-13T22:16:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T02:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=79979"},"modified":"2024-07-13T22:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T02:16:44","slug":"royals-acquire-hunter-harvey-trade-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/13\/royals-acquire-hunter-harvey-trade-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals Strengthen Bullpen in Deal with Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was no secret that the Kansas City Royals wanted to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/23\/royals-interested-tommy-pham-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">strengthen its bullpen<\/a>\u00a0and add a bat before the July 30 trade deadline. The Royals achieved one of those goals on Saturday night in acquiring reliever\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harvehu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunter Harvey<\/a>\u00a0from the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have acquired RHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harvehu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunter Harvey<\/a> from the Washington Nationals for minor-league INF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=wallac001cay&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cayden Wallace<\/a> and our Competitive Balance A pick.<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Harvey, RHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=anderni01,anders005nic&amp;search=Nick+Anderson&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Anderson<\/a> has been designated for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Royals\/status\/1812275939285291351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In return, Washington will receive third base prospect <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=wallac001cay&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cayden Wallace<\/a>\u00a0and the Royals\u2019 Competitive Balance Round A draft pick (39th overall) in the 2024 draft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kansas City designated veteran right-hander\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=anderni01,anders005nic&amp;search=Nick+Anderson&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Anderson<\/a>\u00a0for assignment to make room on the roster.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Royals Acquire Reliever Hunter Harvey from Washington<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harvey was once a top prospect with the Baltimore Orioles after they selected him with the 22nd overall pick in the 2013 draft. He made his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/08\/19\/hunter-harvey-makes-mlb-debut\/\" target=\"_self\">MLB debut<\/a> in 2019. However, the flamethrower struggled mightily with injuries throughout his Orioles tenure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He eventually made his way to a rebuilding Nationals team via waivers ahead of the 2022 season and has broken out in the nation\u2019s capital. Over the past three seasons, Harvey has produced a 3.17 ERA (130 ERA+) in 145 innings over 138 games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During this time, the 29-year-old struck out 27.8 percent of opposing batters while walking just 6.4 percent. Additionally, his fastball velocity ranked in the 96<sup>th<\/sup> percentile or higher in all three seasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hunter Harvey fits the profile of what J.J. Picollo said he was looking for. Averages 97.8 with the 4-seam and has struck out 50 in 45 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Few years of control too.<\/p>\n<p>The new set-up man for the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Royals<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wXj2LDuDL9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/wXj2LDuDL9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Johnson (@JohnyJ_15) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnyJ_15\/status\/1812280136332689458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This season, the righty is averaging just under 98 mph with his fastball and ranks among the league\u2019s best in Whiff, Chase, Strikeout, and Walk rates. While he has given up an alarming amount of hard contact, he has induced ground balls at an above-league-average rate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An additional element of the trade is that the Royals will acquire Harvey and his affordable salary and team control. He is due less than half of his $2.35 million salary for the rest of the season and can be controlled via arbitration for one more season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harvey has racked up 10 saves in his career, all in 2023. It\u2019s unclear if the Royals will acquire Harvey and use him as the closer or as a fireman. Either way, he will surely add the firepower and strikeout ability that Kansas City severely needed out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Jim Rassol-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was no secret that the Kansas City Royals wanted to\u00a0strengthen its bullpen\u00a0and add a bat before the July 30 trade deadline. The Royals achieved one of those goals on Saturday night in acquiring reliever\u00a0Hunter Harvey\u00a0from the Washington Nationals. We have acquired RHP Hunter Harvey from the Washington Nationals for minor-league INF Cayden Wallace and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4683,"featured_media":79982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1071,35,19],"tags":[5801,2826,2963],"class_list":["post-79979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royals","category-mlb","category-news","category-nationals","tag-cayden-wallace","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-nick-anderson"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}