Every trade between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Kansas City Royals

The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Kansas City Royals have made 11 deals with each other since 1998, 2 of them sales. The most recent, on Jul 26, 2025: Arizona Diamondbacks traded RF Randal Grichuk to Kansas City Royals for RHP Andrew Hoffmann. The first on file, on Sep 3, 1998: The Kansas City Royals purchased Jeff Suppan from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Trades between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Kansas City Royals
DateDeal
Jul 26, 2025Arizona Diamondbacks traded RF Randal Grichuk to Kansas City Royals for RHP Andrew Hoffmann.
Aug 1, 2022Arizona Diamondbacks traded RHP Luke Weaver to Kansas City Royals for 3B Emmanuel Rivera.
Apr 17, 2021The Arizona Diamondbacks traded Eduardo Herrera to the Kansas City Royals for Nick Heath.
Jun 22, 2019The Arizona Diamondbacks purchased Ben Lively from the Kansas City Royals.
Jun 6, 2018The Arizona Diamondbacks traded Gabe Speier and Elvis Luciano to the Kansas City Royals for Jon Jay.
Jan 3, 2017The Arizona Diamondbacks traded Peter O'Brien to the Kansas City Royals for Sam Lewis.
Jun 1, 2011The Arizona Diamondbacks traded Andrea Pizziconi to the Kansas City Royals for Lucas May.
May 1, 2010The Arizona Diamondbacks traded Rey Navarro to the Kansas City Royals for Carlos Rosa.
Dec 14, 2007The Arizona Diamondbacks traded Alberto Callaspo to the Kansas City Royals for Billy Buckner.
Aug 8, 2003The Arizona Diamondbacks traded Paul Abbott to the Kansas City Royals for Aric LeClair.
Sep 3, 1998The Kansas City Royals purchased Jeff Suppan from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Trades and sales between the two franchises under every name they have had. To May 2022 from Retrosheet, since then from MLB's transaction feed. The information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at www.retrosheet.org.