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Royals sign Lucas Duda to one-year deal
The Kansas City Royals have signed free-agent first baseman Lucas Duda to a one-year contract, the team announced Wednesday.
Duda, 32, batted just .217 last season but matched a career high with 30 home runs in 127 combined games with the Mets and Tampa Bay Rays.
The Rays acquired Duda from the Mets in a three-way midseason trade that involved a bundle of four players and draft choices. In 52 games for Tampa Bay, Duda blasted 13 home runs and drove in 27 runs with just a .175 batting average.
Duda is coming off a one-year, $7.25 million deal in 2017.
From 2014 to '15, he hit 57 home runs -- including a career-high 30 during his best season in 2014. But he missed four months in 2016 and was limited to 47 games because of a stress fracture in his lower back. He returned in late September of that season as a part-time player and finished with a .229 batting average, seven homers and 23 RBIs in 153 at-bats.
Over eight major league seasons, Duda is hitting .242 with 138 homers and 405 RBIs in 812 games.
Duda, 32, batted just .217 last season but matched a career high with 30 home runs in 127 combined games with the Mets and Tampa Bay Rays.
The Rays acquired Duda from the Mets in a three-way midseason trade that involved a bundle of four players and draft choices. In 52 games for Tampa Bay, Duda blasted 13 home runs and drove in 27 runs with just a .175 batting average.
Duda is coming off a one-year, $7.25 million deal in 2017.
From 2014 to '15, he hit 57 home runs -- including a career-high 30 during his best season in 2014. But he missed four months in 2016 and was limited to 47 games because of a stress fracture in his lower back. He returned in late September of that season as a part-time player and finished with a .229 batting average, seven homers and 23 RBIs in 153 at-bats.
Over eight major league seasons, Duda is hitting .242 with 138 homers and 405 RBIs in 812 games.