{"id":304352,"date":"2025-11-21T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304352\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:20:07","slug":"royals-reach-1-year-deal-with-right-hander-alex-lange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304352\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals reach 1-year deal with right-hander Alex Lange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 20, 2025, 08:36 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40976\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Lange<\/a> agreed to a one-year contract with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"11a5df00-0945-35a5-66fe-a3a107975558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> on Thursday, two days after the 30-year-old right-hander was released by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b27c64bf-4f18-f713-ba06-db1bce2394e7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lange was on the injured list from the start of the season because of a strained right late muscle. He was activated Aug. 18, pitched one scoreless inning against Houston, then was optioned to Triple-A Toledo three days later and went 2-1 with a 4.63 ERA in 24 relief appearances for the Mud Hens.<\/p>\n<p>He was 15-15 with a 3.70 ERA and 29 saves in five seasons with the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City also agreed to a one-year contract with right-hander <a data-player-guid=\"a7d7524f-28ca-3ef4-a4e2-1c40390d6de7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/3960883\/james-mcarthur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James McArthur<\/a>. He was on track to be eligible for salary arbitration if tendered a contract by Friday&#8217;s deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 20, 2025, 08:36 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; Alex Lange agreed to a one-year contract with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-304352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}