{"id":149499,"date":"2026-02-10T00:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149499\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:28:21","slug":"sources-nick-martinez-rays-agree-to-1-year-13m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149499\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Nick Martinez, Rays agree to 1-year, $13M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33372\/nick-martinez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Martinez<\/a> on Monday, agreeing to a one-year, $13 million contract with the right-hander, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan.<\/p>\n<p>The versatile 35-year-old Martinez went 11-14 with a 4.45 ERA in 26 starts and 14 relief appearances with Cincinnati last year. He finished with a career-high 165\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking carefully because the team had not confirmed the agreement, manager Kevin Cash said he had heard Martinez is unselfish and a &#8220;first-class personality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we were fortunate enough to be able to add him to our club, I look at him being able to provide meaningful starter innings for us,&#8221; Cash said. &#8220;So excited by the rumors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay had a 77-85 record in 2025 in its second consecutive losing season. It signed left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33106\/steven-matz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Matz<\/a> to a $15 million, two-year contract and traded right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39639\/shane-baz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Baz<\/a> to Baltimore in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays&#8217; pitchers and catchers are slated to have their first spring training workout on Thursday. The team&#8217;s first full-squad workout is scheduled for Feb. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays added Nick Martinez on Monday, agreeing to a one-year, $13 million contract with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-149499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149499","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=149499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}