{"id":819161,"date":"2026-07-22T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819161\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:39:09","slug":"houston-astros-ship-ex-blue-jay-nate-pearson-to-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819161\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros ship ex-Blue Jay Nate Pearson to Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/houston-astros\/242\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/houston-astros\/242\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> traded right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/nate-pearson\/1054997\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/nate-pearson\/1054997\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Pearson<\/a> to Kansas City for pitching prospect Max Martin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The move comes after Pearson was designated for assignment by the Astros on Sunday. He went 1-0 with a 3.60 ERA in 16 games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The veteran is 10-6 with a 4.99 ERA in 139 career games over six MLB seasons that included stops in Toronto and with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 22-year-old Martin is 6-2 with a 2.01 ERA in 26 relief appearances across two levels of Class-A ball this season. The right-hander was a 10th-round pick in the 2025 draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 The Houston Astros traded right-hander Nate Pearson to Kansas City for pitching prospect Max Martin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-819161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}