{"id":517136,"date":"2026-01-12T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/517136\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:52:14","slug":"bailey-falter-agrees-to-one-year-deal-with-royals-bailey-falter-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/517136\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailey Falter agrees to one-year deal with Royals &#8211; Bailey Falter News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/bailey-falter.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768247534_567_70x70.png\" alt=\"Bailey Falter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #878787; font-size: 13px;\">\n                      by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/news\/correspondents\/david-leisering.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Leisering<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/team-news.php?team=KC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royals Correspondent<\/a> | Mon, Jan 12th 2:01pm EST                    <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; clear: both;\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/bailey-falter.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bailey Falter<\/a><a href=\"#\" class=\"fp-player-link fp-id-44073\" fp-player-name=\"Bailey Falter\"\/> and the Kansas City Royals agreed to a $3.6 million contract for 2026 to avoid arbitration. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/2009344641985073579?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Robert Murray on X<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A couple of arbitration settlements for the Royals, per sources:<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Isbel and the Royals have agreed at $2.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey Falter and the Royals have agreed at $3.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/2009344641985073579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Impact:<\/p>\n<p>Falter struggled with the Royals after being acquired at last year&#8217;s trade deadline, pitching to a 11.25 ERA in 12 innings before missing the last month of the year with an injury. The lefthander has a 4.58 career ERA with the Phillies, Pirates, and Royals. He will compete for a rotation spot on the Royals&#8217; opening day roster during the spring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #878787; position: relative;\">Category:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/transactions.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transactions<\/a> |<br \/>\nMore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/bailey-falter.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bailey Falter<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/news\/bailey-falter.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/bailey-falter.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rankings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/projections\/bailey-falter.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Projections<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/stats\/bailey-falter.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by David Leisering | Royals Correspondent | Mon, Jan 12th 2:01pm EST Bailey Falter and the Kansas City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-517136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115883878155532581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}