Sources: Royals keeping Lugo on 2 years, $46M

Right-hander Seth Lugo and the Kansas City Royals are finalizing a multiyear declaration extension, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan connected Sunday.

Lugo, 35, had been regarded arsenic 1 of the champion imaginable commercialized candidates this deadline play and 1 of the apical arms successful the upcoming escaped cause class.

Lugo has posted ERAs of 3.60 oregon little for the past 5 seasons contempt having below-average fastball velocity and strikeout rates that are bully but not great. The right-hander's quality to strand runners and bounds hard interaction comes successful portion owed to his 9 antithetic pitches, which springiness him the flexibility to marque in-game adjustments, a luxury shared by lone a fistful of MLB starters.

Lugo is 7-5 with a 2.95 ERA and has 99 strikeouts successful 113 innings.

ESPN's Kiley McDaniel and Jeff Passan contributed to this report.