{"id":517470,"date":"2026-01-12T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/517470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:59:14","slug":"nick-mears-and-royals-avoid-arbitration-nick-mears-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/517470\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Mears and Royals avoid arbitration &#8211; Nick Mears News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/nick-mears.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753507692_261_70x70.png\" alt=\"Nick Mears\"\/><\/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 2:08pm EST                    <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; clear: both;\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/nick-mears.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Mears<\/a><a href=\"#\" class=\"fp-player-link fp-id-43637\" fp-player-name=\"Nick Mears\"\/> and the Kansas City Royals agreed on a one-year deal that will pay the righthander $1.9 million for the 2026 season. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anne__rogers\/status\/2009381802004111831?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anne Rogers on X<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Royals<\/a> avoided arbitration with the following players, per source:<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Isbel: $2.7 million<br \/>Bailey Falter: $3.6 million<br \/>John Schreiber: $3.715 million <br \/>Nick Mears: $1.9 million<\/p>\n<p>Kris Bubic &amp; Vinnie Pasquantino haven&#8217;t reached an agreement as of now. Likely headed for hearings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anne__rogers\/status\/2009381802004111831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Impact:<\/p>\n<p>Mears will make his Kansas City debut in 2026 after being acquired from the Brewers in a trade last month. Mears enjoyed his best season last year, appearing in 63 games and pitching to a 3.49 ERA with Milwaukee. He has seen action in parts of six seasons with Pittsburgh, Colorado, and Milwaukee and has a career ERA of 4.61. He is expected to hold down a middle relief role for the Royals in 2026.<\/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\/nick-mears.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Mears<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/news\/nick-mears.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/nick-mears.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rankings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/projections\/nick-mears.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Projections<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/stats\/nick-mears.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 2:08pm EST Nick Mears and the Kansas City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203431,"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-517470","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\/115884848938490958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517470","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=517470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}