{"id":517519,"date":"2026-01-13T00:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/517519\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:40:14","slug":"kyle-isbel-avoids-arbitration-with-royals-kyle-isbel-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/517519\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Isbel avoids arbitration with Royals &#8211; Kyle Isbel News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/kyle-isbel.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768264814_799_70x70.png\" alt=\"Kyle Isbel\"\/><\/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 1:51pm EST                    <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; clear: both;\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/kyle-isbel.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Isbel<\/a><a href=\"#\" class=\"fp-player-link fp-id-8285\" fp-player-name=\"Kyle Isbel\"\/> and the Kansas City Royals have avoided arbitration and the outfielder will make $2.7 million in 2026. (<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>Isbel has spent his entire professional career in the Royals&#8217; organization and has played at the big league level in each of the last five years. Isbel, an excellent defensive centerfielder, is a career .238 hitter with 23 home runs and 33 stolen bases in 496 games with the Royals. He is penciled in to be Kansas City&#8217;s regular centerfielder again 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\/kyle-isbel.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Isbel<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/news\/kyle-isbel.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/kyle-isbel.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rankings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/projections\/kyle-isbel.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Projections<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/stats\/kyle-isbel.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 1:51pm EST Kyle Isbel and the Kansas City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517520,"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-517519","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\/115885010584365854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517519","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=517519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}