{"id":413638,"date":"2026-01-17T20:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413638\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:59:07","slug":"nationals-sign-trevor-gott-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413638\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals Sign Trevor Gott To Minor League Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nationals have signed right-hander Trevor Gott<\/a> to a minor league deal, The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal<\/a> reports.\u00a0 The contract presumably contains an invitation for Gott to attend Washington\u2019s big league Spring Training camp.<\/p>\n

Gott returns to the District for the second time in his career, as he posted a 7.39 ERA over 28 innings with the Nats from 2016-18.\u00a0 This disappointing performance came on the heels of Gott\u2019s strong 2015 rookie season with the Angels, but after the Nationals acquired the righty in a trade for Yunel Escobar<\/a> during the 2015-16 offseason, Gott battled injuries and ineffectiveness while being shuttled up and down from the majors and Triple-A.<\/p>\n

After being dealt to the Giants prior to the 2019 season, Gott struggled again in 2020 and didn\u2019t pitch in the big leagues at all until resurfacing with the Brewers in 2022.\u00a0 The 2022-23 seasons saw Gott establish himself as a solid innings eater out of the Brewers, Mariners, and Mets bullpens, as Gott delivered a 4.17 ERA, 23.7% strikeout rate, and 6.9% walk rate over 103 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Despite this success, the Mets chose to non-tender Gott following the 2023 campaign, and he caught on with the Athletics on a one-year, $1.5MM deal for the 2024 season.\u00a0 Unfortunately for Gott, he had to undergo a Tommy John surgery in March 2024, and it has now been over two years since his last appearance in a Major League game.\u00a0 He inked a minor league deal with the Mariners last winter, but after returning to game action at the start of May, Gott had a 7.40 ERA over 20 2\/3 innings in the minors.<\/p>\n

Now entering his age-33 season and more fully recovered from his TJ procedure, Gott heads to Washington\u2019s camp looking to show what he still has left in the tank.\u00a0 A strong Spring Training might well win Gott a job, as the Nationals have plenty of openings in the bullpen after their relief corps was the league\u2019s worst in 2025.\u00a0 Gott could be one of many veteran pitchers the Nats bring to camp on non-roster invites as they look for some bargains or hidden gems to help round out their pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nationals have signed right-hander Trevor Gott to a minor league deal, The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal reports.\u00a0 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99,198330],"class_list":{"0":"post-413638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-trevor-gott"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}