{"id":301174,"date":"2025-11-23T06:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301174\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:23:08","slug":"nationals-sign-former-shortstop-who-is-trying-to-become-an-mlb-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301174\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals sign former shortstop who is trying to become an MLB pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> want to see the Erick Mejia experiment through.<\/p>\n<p>They re-signed their farmhand this weekend, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/minor-league-transactions-nov-7-18-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baseball America&#8217;s Matt Eddy<\/a>. This isn&#8217;t just any minor league ballplayer, though.<\/p>\n<p>Mejia came up as a shortstop, and now he&#8217;s trying to become a pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>He undertook the task full-time in 2025, and he climbed all the way to Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>His most pitching came at Double-A, where he made 24 appearances and had a 2.33 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>He struggled more at Triple-A Rochester, allowing 12 runs in 10 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Mejia has been in professional baseball for a long time. He signed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> as an international free agent in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He spent time in the systems of the Mariners, Dodgers and Royals before joining the Nationals&#8217; system in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He did play in the majors as a shortstop with the Royals, going 6-for-36 across two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mejia struggled in 2023 and 2024 with his bat at Rochester, so the Nationals gave him a chance to shift gears in 2025 and become a pitcher. There was more good than bad, so he could get a chance to climb the final rung on the ladder in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>More news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Nationals want to see the Erick Mejia experiment through. They re-signed their farmhand this weekend, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-301174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}