Washington Nationals Add Former Phillies Top Prospect on Minor League Deal

The Washington Nationals signed right-handed pitcher Adonis Medina to a minor league deal on Friday, according to his MLB.com transaction log.

Medina was assigned to Triple-A Rochester on Saturday.

The last time Medina appeared in the big leagues was with the New York Mets in 2022. The 27-year-old was once a top prospect in the Philadelphia Phillies' farm system.

Medina also spent brief offseason stints with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers.

After signing with the Phillies as a teenager out of the Dominican Republic in 2014, Medina thrived at the lower minor league levels. Through his first four seasons of professional ball, Medina was 14-17 with a 2.81 ERA and 1.145 WHIP.

Entering 2019, MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo had Medina ranked as the No. 77 prospect in all of baseball.

Medina's numbers dipped as he reached Double-A and Triple-A, though, and the starting pitcher didn't make his MLB debut until 2020.

Across one big league outing in 2020 and four in 2021, Medina boasted a 3.86 ERA, but his WHIP stood at 1.629 and his strikeout-to-walk ratio sat at just 1.43.

The Phillies eventually waived Medina, and he wound up making 14 relief appearances with the Mets in 2022. He went 1-0 with a 6.08 ERA and 1.521 WHIP.

Medina spent 2023 in the Korean Baseball Organization with the KIA Tigers, where he went 2-6 with a 6.05 ERA and 1.603 WHIP.

It remains to be seen if Medina can make his way onto the Nationals' big league roster, or if he will even earn an invitation to Spring Training, but he is once again under contract with an NL East club. Washington recently signed another former Mets pitcher, Robert Gsellman, to a minor league contract as well.