Adam

Frazier

With Vaughn Grissom on the IL and temporarily out of the mix, the Angels will have Adam Frazier and Peraza split time at second base initially. Although Frazier is a lefty and Peraza is a righty, it won’t be a straight platoon initially, which is good. We don’t know that Peraza will turn out to be a quality option, but we can be pretty well sure that Frazier won’t be.

Frazier will open the regular season splitting time with Oswald Peraza at second base for the Angels. The 34-year-old veteran is a steady, yet unspectacular, option at this advanced stage of his career. He can be safely ignored for fantasy purposes.

Grissom will open the season on the shelf after suffering a wrist injury late in camp. His departure means it’ll be Adam Frazier and Oswald Peraza splitting time at second base to open the season.

At first glance, it seems like that arrangement favors Frazier since the veteran hits left-handed while Peraza hits right-handed. However, Peraza went 16-for-51 (.314) this spring with two home runs and six steals with a 47.5 percent hard-hit rate, while Frazier went 9-for-32 (.281) with no home runs, one steal, and a 33.3 percent hard-hit rate. Frazier has also had a negative outs above average at second base in two of the last three seasons. It makes more sense for Peraza to be given a shot at the job, and maybe he’ll win it over the first few weeks of the season.

The 34-year-old infielder delivered a two-run double in the eighth inning of this one that capped off the scoring. Frazier has not only played his way onto the Angels’ roster this spring, but it seems like he could wind up being the team’s starting second baseman on Opening Day. He’s hitting .368 (7-for-19) with five RBI and a stolen base during Cactus League play.

The move paves a relatively unobstructed path for veteran Adam Frazier to open the year as the Angels’ starting second baseman. Technically, Oswald Peraza, Nick Madrigal and Vaughn Grissom remain in the mix but they’ve struggled this spring and make more sense in bench roles. Los Angeles took Moore with the eighth-overall pick back in 2024, one spot before Pittsburgh grabbed baseball’s current top prospect Konnor Griffin. The 23-year-old second baseman has hit just .198/.284/.370 with seven homers in 53 games at the highest level and has struggled to emerge as an everyday option.

Fraizer, 34, slashed a respectable .267/.319/.365 with seven homers, 44 RBI, eight swipes and an 81/26 K/BB ratio over 459 plate appearances between the Pirates and Royals in 2025. With a strong showing in Cactus League play, he could win himself a reserve role on the Halos’ Opening Day roster.

Isbel left Wednesday’s game with left hamstring discomfort, and with just a week left in the season, this injury might mean the end of his 2025 campaign. For Thursday, Mike Yastrzemski will shift to center field, and Adam Frazier will start in left field. This may be the alignment the Royals use for the final games.

Massey, who already sat against lefties on Tuesday and Wednesday, is out of the lineup for just the second time in 10 games against righties since he came off the IL. The Royals are picking Jonathan India over both Massey and Adam Frazier at second base tonight. Masset is batting .333/.351/.389 in 37 plate appearances since returning from an ankle sprain.

Massey hit just .212/.257/.354 in 23 minor league games during his two rehab assignments (he was pulled off the first at the end of July and went on another two weeks ago), but he had homered in two of his last three games. It seems like the Royals would have been better off just keeping him in the minors, but we’ll see. He’s batted .202/.221/.258 in 56 major league games this season. He’ll presumably get John Rave’s at-bats in left field and maybe steal a few from Adam Frazier as well.