{"id":17030,"date":"2026-03-10T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/right-hander-zack-littell-and-washington-nationals-finalize-7-million-1-year-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:43:02","slug":"right-hander-zack-littell-and-washington-nationals-finalize-7-million-1-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/right-hander-zack-littell-and-washington-nationals-finalize-7-million-1-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-hander Zack Littell and Washington Nationals finalize $7 million, 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) &mdash; Right-hander Zack Littell and the Washington Nationals finalized a $7 million, one-year contract on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old gets a $3 million salary, and the deal includes a $12 million mutual option with a $4 million buyout.<\/p>\n<p>He can earn an additional $2.5 million in performance bonuses for innings pitched: $100,000 each for 100 and each additional 10 through 140, $250,000 apiece for 150 and 160, and $500,000 each for 170, 180 and 190.<\/p>\n<p>Littell was 10-8 with a 3.81 ERA in last year for Tampa Bay and Cincinnati, which acquired him July 30. He set career highs with 32 starts and 186 2\/3 innings, pitching a 10-hitter in a 16-3 victory at Houston on May 31 for his first complete game since 2017 in the minor leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is rebuilding under Paul Toboni, who was hired as the team&rsquo;s president of baseball operations after the Nationals went 66-96 last year. The organization hasn&rsquo;t posted a winning season since it won the 2019 World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Littell slots into a rotation that also includes Cade Cavalli and Miles Mikolas, who agreed to a $2.25 million, one-year contract last month. MacKenzie Gore was traded to Texas in January for five prospects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>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<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Right-hander Zack Littell and Washington Nationals finalize $7 million, 1-year contract<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) &mdash; Right-hander Zack Littell and the Washington Nationals finalized a $7 million, one-year contract on Tuesday. The 30-year-old gets a $3 million salary, and the deal includes a $12 million mutual option with a $4 million buyout. He can earn an additional $2.5 million in performance bonuses for innings pitched:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/right-hander-zack-littell-and-washington-nationals-finalize-7-million-1-year-contract\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Right-hander Zack Littell and Washington Nationals finalize $7 million, 1-year contract&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}