{"id":567268,"date":"2026-02-12T01:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567268\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:33:28","slug":"kris-bubic-wins-arbitration-hearing-against-royals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567268\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Bubic wins arbitration hearing against Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Kris Bubic has picked up his first win of the year off the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a report from MLB.com\u2019s Mark Feinsand, Bubic won his arbitration hearing against the Royals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">By winning the hearing, the 2025 American League All-Star will make $6.15 million during the 2026 season. That\u2019s $1 million more than the $5.15 million the Royals filed for, according to Feinsand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bubic, 28, enters his seventh season with the Royals in 2026. Last year, he went 8-7 with a career-best 2.55 earned run average in 20 starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/2025\/07\/28\/royals-all-star-pitcher-kris-bubic-out-season-with-shoulder-injury\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/2025\/07\/28\/royals-all-star-pitcher-kris-bubic-out-season-with-shoulder-injury\/\">didn\u2019t pitch in August or September of last year<\/a> after being placed on the injured list with a left rotator cuff strain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The former 2018 first-round pick of the Royals is part of a Kansas City rotation that was among the best in baseball in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Originally, the Royals were set to go to arbitration against Bubic and first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino, but Pasquantino and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/2026\/01\/30\/report-royals-pasquantino-avoid-arbitration-with-new-2-year-deal\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/2026\/01\/30\/report-royals-pasquantino-avoid-arbitration-with-new-2-year-deal\/\">club agreed on a two-year contract<\/a> on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Kris Bubic has picked up his first win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[67567,5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,74688,4,252],"class_list":["post-567268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-arbitration-hearing","tag-baseball","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-kris-bubic-deal","tag-mlb","tag-royals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116055087879129052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567268","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=567268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}