{"id":565518,"date":"2026-02-11T04:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/565518\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:21:22","slug":"athletics-mitch-spence-pushed-off-40-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/565518\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics&#8217; Mitch Spence: Pushed off 40-man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/ATH\/athletics\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/311.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/ATH\/athletics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a> designated <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/28837586\/spence\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spence<\/a> for assignment Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>With Scott Barlow and Aaron Civale officially signing one-year deals with the A&#8217;s on Tuesday, Spence and Grant Holman (finger) will both lose their place on the 40-man roster. Spence made 32 appearances (eight starts) with the Athletics in 2025, turning in a 5.10 ERA and 1.44 WHIP to go with a 66:26 K:BB through 84.2 innings. Assuming he clears waivers, the 27-year-old righty will open the season at Triple-A Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics designated Spence for assignment Tuesday. With Scott Barlow and Aaron Civale officially signing one-year deals with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,28,4916,4,3226],"class_list":{"0":"post-565518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-fantasy-baseball","11":"tag-mitch-spence","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-athletics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116050086912742207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565518","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=565518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}