By Bert Leeson
**NEW YORK, N.Y.**—The Kansas City Royals released their roster for the Division Series. The roster remains unchanged from the Wild Card Series.
The Royals will carry 11 pitchers into tonight’s series opener in New York, led by starting pitchers Cole Ragans, Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha. The bullpen will consist of left-handed pitchers Kris Bubic, Sam Long, Daniel Lynch IV and Angel Zerpa, and right handers Lucas Erceg, Michael Lorenzen, John Schreiber and Brady Singer.
Kansas City will have 15 position players on the active roster, led by Captain Salvador Perez, All-Star shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. and first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino. Dairon Blanco, Kyle Isbel, MJ Melendez, Tommy Pham and Hunter Renfroe will man the outfield, and they will carry infielders Paul DeJong, Maikel Garcia, Yuli Gurriel, Adam Frazier, Garrett Hampson and Michael Massey, as well as catcher Freddy Fermin.
Gurriel, 40, brings the most postseason experience, having played in 88 postseason games with Houston from 2017-23 and Kansas City this year, while Perez enters the Division Series 10 games shy of George Brett’s franchise record for postseason games (43).
Others to have postseason experience include Pham (33 games), Renfroe (24), DeJong (14), Wacha (8), Frazier (7), Lorenzen (4), Lugo (4), Hampson (4), Bubic (2), Long (2), Erceg (2), Witt Jr. (2), Pasquantino (2), Isbel (2), Melendez (2), Garcia (2), Massey (2), Ragans (1), Zerpa (1), Schreiber (1) and Blanco (1). Lynch IV, Singer and Fermin enter the Division Series with no playoff experience.
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