{"id":569102,"date":"2026-02-13T00:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569102\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:24:26","slug":"royals-acquire-rhp-mitch-spence-from-the-athletics-for-rhp-a-j-causey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569102\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals acquire RHP Mitch Spence from the Athletics for RHP A.J. Causey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 The Kansas City Royals acquired right-hander Mitch Spence from the Athletics for right-hander A.J. Causey on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City put right-hander Alec Marsh on the 60-day injured list to make room for Spence on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics picked Spence first overall in the Rule 5 draft before the 2024 season, and he&#8217;s pitched the past two years with them. He went 3-6 with a 5.10 ERA in 32 appearances \u2014 including eight starts \u2014 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Spence was designated for assignment by the A&#8217;s on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Causey was in camp for the Royals as a non-roster invite.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP baseball: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 The Kansas City Royals acquired right-hander Mitch Spence from the Athletics for right-hander A.J.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[229,537,5,2123,55,4916,4,3226,1949],"class_list":{"0":"post-569102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-alec-marsh","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-royals","13":"tag-mitch-spence","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-mlb-athletics","16":"tag-the-athletics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116060478738091313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569102","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=569102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}