{"id":2175453,"date":"2025-11-24T20:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2175453"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:03:23","slug":"kansas-city-royals-news-melendez-clarke-non-tendered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kansas-city-royals-news-melendez-clarke-non-tendered\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals news: Melendez, Clarke non-tendered"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Melendez, a homegrown product and former Top 100 prospect, never fully put it together with the Royals despite showing promise at times and possessing immense power. The club elected to make him a free agent rather than bring him back for 2026 at a salary determined via the arbitration process.<\/p>\n

India had also been considered a candidate to be non-tendered following a first season in Kansas City in which he posted a .233\/.323\/.346 line. He was acquired last November<\/a> in a trade that sent Brady Singer to the Reds. Instead the club elected to keep him. A source told MLB.com the deal is worth $8 million; he made just over $7 million in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melendez, a homegrown product and former Top 100 prospect, never fully put it together with the Royals despite showing promise at times and possessing immense power. The club elected to make him a free agent rather than bring him back for 2026 at a salary determined via the arbitration process. India had also been considered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2175454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[340725],"class_list":["post-2175453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-royals-rumblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kansas-City-Royals-news-Melendez-Clarke-non-tendered.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175455,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175453\/revisions\/2175455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}