{"id":571212,"date":"2026-02-14T00:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/571212\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:46:30","slug":"royals-acquire-rhp-mitch-spence-from-the-athletics-for-rhp-a-j-causey-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/571212\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals acquire RHP Mitch Spence from the Athletics for RHP A.J. Causey | MLB"},"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&#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>AP baseball: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/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":571213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[3287,537,5,75174,4,3226,256,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-571212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athlete-injuries","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals-athletics-mitch-spence","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-athletics","14":"tag-mlb-baseball","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116066227546418643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571212","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=571212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}