{"id":2279667,"date":"2026-02-12T23:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2279667"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:56:17","slug":"royals-acquire-rhp-mitch-spence-from-the-athletics-for-rhp-a-j-causey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-acquire-rhp-mitch-spence-from-the-athletics-for-rhp-a-j-causey\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals acquire RHP Mitch Spence from the Athletics for RHP A.J. Causey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<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>Advertisement<\/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>___<\/p>\n<p>AP baseball: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. Kansas City put right-hander Alec Marsh on the 60-day injured list to make room for Spence on the 40-man roster. Advertisement The Athletics picked Spence first overall in the Rule 5 draft before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2279668,"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":[311154,310650,43627,377404,351123],"class_list":["post-2279667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-alec-marsh","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-mitch-spence","tag-the-athletics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Royals-acquire-RHP-Mitch-Spence-from-the-Athletics-for-RHP.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279667","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=2279667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279669,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279667\/revisions\/2279669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}