{"id":636098,"date":"2026-03-21T22:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/636098\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:30:13","slug":"washington-nationals-release-right-handed-pitcher-drew-smith-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/636098\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals release right-handed pitcher Drew Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals released right-handed pitcher Drew Smith on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The Washington Nationals released right-handed pitcher Drew Smith on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 32, had signed a minor league deal with an invitation to major league camp after missing the entire 2025 season to recover from Tommy John surgery. He went 1-1 with a 3.06 ERA and two saves in 19 relief appearances with the New York Mets in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has gone 12-13 with a 3.48 ERA and five saves in 191 career games, all with the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Nationals released right-handed pitcher Drew Smith on Saturday. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,1130,4,71],"class_list":["post-636098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-drew-smith","tag-mlb","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116269536132780824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636098","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=636098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}