{"id":508217,"date":"2026-01-06T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/508217\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:43:16","slug":"nationals-hire-jason-sinnarajah-from-royals-as-their-president-of-business-operations-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/508217\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals hire Jason Sinnarajah from Royals as their president of business operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/washington-nationals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> have hired Jason Sinnarajah from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> to become their president of business operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Sinnarajah will oversee all business-related aspects of the Nationals in his new role. He had been working as the Royals\u2019 senior vice president and chief operating officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Nationals officials said Sinnarajah revitalized the stadium experience by implementing fan entry technology and reimagining the concessions program during his time with the Royals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">\u201cJason is a transformative leader with a proven track record of using data and innovation to enhance the fan experience and drive organizational excellence,\u201d Nationals managing principal owner Mark D. Lerner said in a statement. \u201cBy creating the President of Business Operations role, we are ensuring that our business strategy is as modern and forward-thinking as our baseball strategy. We believe Jason is the ideal person to lead the Nationals into a bright future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Sinnarajah is the latest new hire in a Nationals front office that recently added Paul Toboni as president of baseball operations and Anirudh Kilambi as general manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Before joining the Royals, Sinnarajah was the Buffalo Bills\u2019 senior vice president of business administration from 2023. He also has worked with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> and at Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Washington Nationals have hired Jason Sinnarajah from the Kansas City Royals to become their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-508217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115849396543088231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}