{"id":382594,"date":"2026-07-22T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382594\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:40:08","slug":"houston-astros-trade-right-hander-nate-pearson-to-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382594\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros trade right-hander Nate Pearson to Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Astros<\/a> traded right-hander Nate Pearson<\/a> to the Kansas City Royals for minor-league pitcher Max Martin on Wednesday, the teams announced.<\/p>\n

Pearson was designated for assignment Sunday by the Astros, who had seven days to either trade him or place him on waivers. He had a 3.60 ERA in 16 relief outings for Houston after starting the season on the injured list recovering from elbow soreness.<\/p>\n

Martin, 22, is a 6-foot-5 right-hander drafted in the 10th round by the Royals in 2025 from UC Irvine. He has pitched as a reliever in the Royals system and had a 2.01 ERA in 40\u2153 innings this season in A-ball, including a 1.40 ERA in 12 outings at High-A Quad Cities.<\/p>\n

Pearson was among a series of pitching additions made last offseason by Houston and general manager Dana Brown. The Astros acquired six pitchers in major-league free agency (Tatsuya Imai, Ryan Weiss, Pearson), trades (Mike Burrows, Kai-Wei Teng) or the Rule 5 draft (Roddery Mu\u00f1oz).<\/p>\n

Entering Sunday, those six pitchers had combined for a 5.73 ERA in 260\u2154 major-league innings for the Astros. None has remained on the active roster all season. Weiss, Pearson and Mu\u00f1oz were designated for assignment. Burrows was optioned to Triple-A before Houston nullified that move and placed him on the major-league IL. Imai and Teng are currently on the active roster.<\/p>\n

Pearson, 29, has a 4.99 ERA in 139 career major-league appearances, all but six in relief. In his 20 innings with the Astros, he posted a 1.40 WHIP with 16 hits allowed, 12 walks and 16 strikeouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros traded right-hander Nate Pearson to the Kansas City Royals for minor-league pitcher Max Martin on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-382594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}