{"id":567581,"date":"2026-02-12T05:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567581\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:15:22","slug":"nationals-sign-pitcher-miles-mikolas-to-a-2-25-million-1-year-contract-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567581\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals sign pitcher Miles Mikolas to a $2.25 million, 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Miles Mikolas<\/a> and the Washington Nationals<\/a> have agreed to a $2.25 million, one-year contract, adding a durable veteran to the mix as the young team sorts out its starting rotation in spring training.<\/p>\n

The club announced the move Wednesday. Mikolas can earn $750,000 in performance bonuses: $100,000 each for 100 innings or 30 games pitched, 110 or 40 and 120 or 50, $200,000 for 130 or 60, and $250,000 for 140 or 70.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old Mikolas, a two-time All-Star, spent his past seven seasons with St. Louis. The right-hander went 8-11 with a 4.84 ERA for the Cardinals<\/a> in 2025 and is one of four major league pitchers to make at least 31 starts in each of the last four seasons.<\/p>\n

He has made 130 starts since 2022, tied for second-most in the big leagues during that stretch.<\/p>\n

The rebuilding Nationals traded All-Star starter MacKenzie Gore to Texas last month for five minor league prosects. Jake Irvin<\/a>, Mitchell Parker<\/a>, Cade Cavalli<\/a>, Brad Lord<\/a> and Foster Griffin<\/a> are among the pitchers looking to lock down rotation spots entering camp. Josiah Gray<\/a>, an All-Star in 2023, is coming back from Tommy John surgery and hopes to be ready for the start of the season.<\/p>\n

Mikolas is 72-75 with a 4.24 ERA in 241 games, including 213 starts, over 10 major league seasons with San Diego (2012-13), Texas (2014) and St. Louis (2018-25). He pitched in Japan from 2015-17 and sat out the pandemic-shortened 2020 season with an injury.<\/p>\n

Mikolas went 18-4 with a 2.83 ERA in 2018, leading the National League in wins. He was selected in the seventh round of the 2009 amateur draft by the Padres<\/a> and pitched six effective innings for Team USA in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n

In another roster move, the Nationals placed left-hander DJ Herz on the 60-day injured list.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Miles Mikolas and the Washington Nationals have agreed to a $2.25 million, one-year contract, adding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,1902,3573,55398,496,12062,19,912,4,415,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-567581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brad-lord","10":"tag-cade-cavalli","11":"tag-foster-griffin","12":"tag-jake-irvin","13":"tag-josiah-gray","14":"tag-major-league-baseball","15":"tag-mitchell-parker","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-nationals","18":"tag-washington","19":"tag-washington-nationals","20":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116055960730556837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567581","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=567581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567581\/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=567581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}