{"id":569794,"date":"2026-02-13T08:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569794\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:21:33","slug":"royals-acquire-right-hander-mitch-spence-from-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/569794\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals acquire right-hander Mitch Spence from Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WIBW) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals have acquired right-handed pitcher Mitch Spence from the Athletics in exchange for right-hander A.J. Causey. Spence was designated for assignment earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To make room on the 40-man roster, the Royals placed right-hander Alec Marsh on the 60-day Injured List.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Spence, 27, has spent the past two seasons with the Athletics after being selected in the 2024 Rule 5 Draft from the Yankees. He has made 67 appearances (32 starts) over two big league seasons, logging 236.0 innings with a 2.7 walks-per-nine rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Causey, 23, went 11-5 with nine saves and a 1.72 ERA across two minor league levels last season. He was Kansas City\u2019s fifth-round pick in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WIBW) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals have acquired right-handed pitcher Mitch Spence from the Athletics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[18387,537,5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4916,4,75062,252,151,4164,16134,19446],"class_list":{"0":"post-569794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-atheltics","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-kansas","12":"tag-kansas-city","13":"tag-kansas-city-royals","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascityroyals","16":"tag-mitch-spence","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-right-hand-pitcher","19":"tag-royals","20":"tag-spring-training","21":"tag-trade","22":"tag-wibw","23":"tag-wibw-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116062354390862907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569794","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=569794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}