{"id":151172,"date":"2026-02-11T04:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/151172\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:35:20","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-and-pitcher-nick-martinez-finalize-13-million-1-year-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/151172\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays and pitcher Nick Martinez finalize $13 million, 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Nick Martinez and the Tampa Bay Rays finalized their $13 million, one-year contract on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old pitcher gets a $9 million salary this season, and the deal includes a $20 million mutual option for 2027 with a $4 million buyout payable on Dec. 15.<\/p>\n

Martinez went 11-14 with a 4.45 ERA in 26 starts and 14 relief appearances for Cincinnati last year. The right-hander threw a career-high 165 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay had a 77-85 record in 2025, its second consecutive losing season. The team signed left-hander Steven Matz to a $15 million, two-year contract and traded right-hander Shane Baz to Baltimore in December.<\/p>\n

Martinez was selected by Texas in the 18th round of the 2011 amateur draft out of Fordham. He made his major league debut with the Rangers in 2014.<\/p>\n

He pitched in Japan for four seasons before signing with the San Diego Padres in March 2022. <\/p>\n

Martinez is 48-59 with a 4.16 ERA in 151 relief appearances and 129 starts over eight years in the majors. He had his best season in 2024, when he went 10-7 with a career-low 3.10 ERA in 42 games with the Reds.<\/p>\n

\"Cincinnati<\/p>\n

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Nick Martinez delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates Aug. 9, 2025, in Pittsburgh. Credit: AP\/Matt Freed<\/p>\n

Right-hander Manuel Rodr\u00edguez, recovering from right elbow surgery on Aug. 8, was put on the 60-day injured list to open a roster spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Nick Martinez and the Tampa Bay Rays finalized their $13 million, one-year contract on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3817,53537,135,3815,137,136,122],"class_list":["post-151172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151172","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=151172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}