{"id":570160,"date":"2026-02-13T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/570160\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:45:26","slug":"royals-acquire-rhp-mitch-spence-from-the-athletics-for-rhp-a-j-causey-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/570160\/","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>The Athletics picked Spence first overall in the Rule 5 draft before the 2024 season, and he\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/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":570161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[229,146,3287,537,5,2178,936,2123,55,2596,2595,3736,4916,4,256,7094,252,70356,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-570160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-alec-marsh","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-athletics","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-kansas","15":"tag-kansas-city","16":"tag-kansas-city-royals","17":"tag-kansascity","18":"tag-kansascityroyals","19":"tag-missouri","20":"tag-mitch-spence","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-mlb-baseball","23":"tag-mo-state-wire","24":"tag-royals","25":"tag-send-to-apple-news","26":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116063394206833408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570160","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=570160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}