{"id":2252076,"date":"2026-01-27T01:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2252076"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:04:15","slug":"royals-sign-12-year-mlb-veteran-to-compete-for-bullpen-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-sign-12-year-mlb-veteran-to-compete-for-bullpen-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Sign 12-Year MLB Veteran to Compete for Bullpen Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Kansas City Royals’ bullpen was in a solid spot already before spring training, but veteran reinforcements at this point in the calendar are rarely a bad idea. <\/p>\n

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H\u00e9ctor Neris certainly fits the description of veteran, and although he’s no lock to make the major league roster, he’ll be headed to Arizona to try and join the Royals at the end of March.<\/p>\n

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On Monday evening, Jon Heyman of the celebrity.land reported that Neris and the Royals were in agreement<\/a> on a minor-league deal with an invite to spring training. The 36-year-old, who elected free agency in August after he was waived by the Houston Astros, will look for a 13th season in the majors. <\/p>\n

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This story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n

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More MLB: <\/strong><\/em>Royals Lose 26-Year-Old Free Agent to White Sox After Injury<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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

The Kansas City Royals’ bullpen was in a solid spot already before spring training, but veteran reinforcements at this point in the calendar are rarely a bad idea. H\u00e9ctor Neris certainly fits the description of veteran, and although he’s no lock to make the major league roster, he’ll be headed to Arizona to try and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2252077,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2252076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Royals-Sign-12-Year-MLB-Veteran-to-Compete-for-Bullpen-Job.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252076","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=2252076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252078,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252076\/revisions\/2252078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}