Zack Littell has a new home after agreeing to a one-year contract with the Washington Nationals, according to a person familiar with the deal.<\/p>\n
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement was pending a physical.<\/p>\n
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The contract for the veteran right-hander includes a mutual option for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old Littell played for Tampa Bay and Cincinnati last year, going 10-8 with a 3.81 ERA. He was traded from the Rays to the Reds on July 30.<\/p>\n
Littell set career highs with 32 starts and 186 2\/3 innings in 2025. He also pitched his first career complete game in the Rays\u2019 16-3 victory at Houston on May 31.<\/p>\n
Washington is rebuilding under Paul Toboni, who was hired as the team\u2019s president of baseball operations after the Nationals went 66-96 last year. The organization hasn\u2019t posted a winning season since it won the 2019 World Series.<\/p>\n
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Littell slots into a rotation that also includes Cade Cavalli and Miles Mikolas, who agreed to a one-year, $2.25 million contract last month. MacKenzie Gore was traded to Texas in January for five prospects.<\/p>\n
Littell, an 11th-round pick in the 2013 amateur draft, made his big league debut with Minnesota in 2018. He is 34-29 with a 3.88 ERA in 155 relief appearances and 79 starts, also playing for San Francisco and Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zack Littell has a new home after agreeing to a one-year contract with the Washington Nationals, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":641777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[2731,45282,10595,4345,34544,21718,3663,1266,20416,2750,62,91397,358,67,132,68,1291,69804],"class_list":["post-641776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-boston","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-cincinnati","tag-houston","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-miles-mikolas","tag-minnesota","tag-mlb","tag-rays","tag-san-francisco","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay","tag-texas","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington-nationals","tag-zack-littell"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116195678356523079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}