{"id":149036,"date":"2026-02-09T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149036\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:18:10","slug":"rays-nick-martinez-signs-with-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149036\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays&#8217; Nick Martinez: Signs with Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-rays\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/329.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-rays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rays<\/a> signed <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2119647\/martinez\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martinez<\/a> to a one-year, $13 million contract Monday, Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez will turn 36 years old later this summer and pitched in 40 games for the Reds last season, making 26 starts. He posted a 4.45 ERA, 1.21 WHIP and 116:42 K:BB across a career-high 165.2 innings. Capable of starting or working out of the bullpen, Martinez is expected to be part of the Rays&#8217; rotation, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays signed Martinez to a one-year, $13 million contract Monday, Jon Heyman of the New York Post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32832,72086,135,3815,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-149036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fantasy-baseball","9":"tag-nick-martinez","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}