{"id":756134,"date":"2026-07-19T19:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/756134\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:21:12","slug":"nationals-sign-matt-krook-to-major-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/756134\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals Sign Matt Krook To Major League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/ajeustace2\" title=\"Posts by AJ Eustace\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AJ Eustace<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at July 19, 2026 2:03pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>The Nationals announced this afternoon that they\u2019ve signed left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/krookma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Krook<\/a> to a major league deal and activated him. He takes the place of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/poulipj01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PJ Poulin<\/a> on the active roster, with Poulin going on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to July 16th) for a left flexor strain. To clear space on the 40-man roster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lovelri01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Richard Lovelady<\/a> was transferred to the 60-day IL.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By AJ Eustace | at July 19, 2026 2:03pm CDT The Nationals announced this afternoon that they\u2019ve signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,12349,4,30017,24906],"class_list":["post-756134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-matt-krook","tag-mlb","tag-pj-poulin","tag-richard-lovelady"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116948269999756416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756134","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=756134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}