Pirates trade Adam Frazier to Royals for Triple-A infielder Cam Devanney

The Pittsburgh Pirates made their first significant midseason trade with implications to the big-league roster Wednesday, shipping infielder/outfielder Adam Frazier to Kansas City for Royals prospect Cam Devanney.

The Pirates said Devanney has been optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis. The team will make a corresponding move on the 26-man active roster Thursday before beginning a home series with the White Sox on Friday.

Devanney, 28, has never appeared in an MLB contest but has 18 home runs and a .272/.366/.565 slash line in 69 games with Triple-A Omaha this season.

On July 8, he was activated by the Royals.

A 15th-round draft pick by the Brewers in 2019 (No. 463 overall) out of Elon, Devanney throws and bats right-handed and primarily plays shortstop.

Frazier, 33, returns to a Royals club with whom he spent the 2024 campaign.

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This year with the Pirates, he appeared in 78 games, slashing .255/.318/.336 with three homers and 21 RBIs.

A 2013 Pirates draft pick who played from 2016-21 in Pittsburgh, earning an All-Star selection for his last season with the Pirates before being traded mid-year to Seattle, Frazier rejoined his original club on a one-year deal this past offseason.

Envisioned to assume a bench role, Frazier was thrust into a more prominent everyday situation because of a litany of injuries to fellow infielders earlier in the season, particularly second baseman Nick Gonzales.

As he did during his first stint with the Pirates, Frazier was able to add defensive versatility, making starts at three positions: second base (47), left field (12) and right field (four).

Over 564 1/3 innings in the field, he committed two errors.

All told, from 2016-21 and in 2025, Frazier appeared in 686 games for the Pirates.

Devanney appears on pace to put together a campaign similar to what he managed last year with the Royals’ Triple-A affiliate in Omaha, when he hit 19 homers with 77 RBIs in 136 games, batting .254.

This is his third straight year playing primarily at Triple-A, having spent 2023 (103 games) with the Brewers’ top minor-league club, the Nashville Sounds, before he was traded to Kansas City that December.