{"id":65914,"date":"2024-03-06T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T15:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=65914"},"modified":"2024-03-06T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T15:46:46","slug":"eddie-rosario-washington-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/06\/eddie-rosario-washington-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals Sign NLCS MVP Eddie Rosario to a Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rosared01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eddie Rosario<\/a> and the Washington Nationals are in agreement on a split contract. Meaning that can pay the veteran up to $4 million after incentives, reports Daniel Alvarez Montes of El Extra Base. Joining the Nationals on a minor league deal helps potentially improve the roster. Rosario had a 1.1 WAR and a 100 OPS+ as well as a 100 wRC+ during the 2023 season. Rosario primarily played left field for the Braves but has experience having played at all three outfield positions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nationals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Nationals<\/a> are in agreement with OF Eddie Rosario. It is a split contract in which he could earn up to $4M with incentives. The deal is pending a physical, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElExtrabase?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ElExtrabase<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel \u00c1lvarez-Montes (@DanielAlvarezEE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielAlvarezEE\/status\/1765388981749809639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Nationals to Sign Eddie Rosario<\/h2>\n<p>Rosario, 32, is a veteran of nine big league seasons who will be joining his fourth MLB club. He appeared in 142 games last season with the Atlanta Braves last season, tallying a .255\/.305\/.450 batting line with 21 home runs, a 6.6% walk rate and a 23.6% strikeout rate. From 2017 to 2020, Rosario was a key presence in the middle of the Minnesota Twins lineup. He popped 96 home runs and hitting .281\/.317\/.493. His bat has tallied off since then, however, Rosario&#8217;s run with the Braves following his acquisition at the 2021 trade deadline helped push Atlanta to the postseason. His heroic performance in that year&#8217;s National League Championship Series won him MVP honors.<\/p>\n<p>With the Nationals, Rosario can give manager Dave Martinez <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/01\/23\/joey-gallo-washington-nationals\/\" target=\"_self\">another veteran<\/a> to compete for time in left field. He will join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/winkeje01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesse Winker<\/a> in that regard. Center field figures to be manned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/roblevi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Robles<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=thomala02,thomas001lan&amp;search=Lane+Thomas&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-06_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lane Thomas<\/a> slated for reps in right field.<\/p>\n<p>In his career, Rosario has a .268\/.305\/.460 line with 159 home runs and 548 RBI. This is along with a career 12.4 WAR a career 104 OPS+ as well as a career 102 wRC+ for Rosario. Rosario has not made an All-Star team or won a Gold Glove or a Silver Slugger. In 2019 and 2020 Rosario received AL MVP votes.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Rosario and the Washington Nationals are in agreement on a split contract. Meaning that can pay the veteran up to $4 million after incentives, reports Daniel Alvarez Montes of El Extra Base. Joining the Nationals on a minor league deal helps potentially improve the roster. Rosario had a 1.1 WAR and a 100 OPS+ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":67753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1071,19],"tags":[2529,661,139,5075,2462],"class_list":["post-65914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mlb","category-nationals","tag-dave-martinez","tag-eddie-rosario","tag-jesse-winker","tag-lane-thomas","tag-victor-robles"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}