Will Harris signed a 3-year/$24M free agent deal with Washington’s Nationals coming off a 2019 campaign with Houston’s Astros which saw him put up a 1.50 ERA, a 3.15 FIP, 14 walks (2.10 BB/9), 62 strikeouts (9.30 K/9), and a .196/.246/.294 line against in 60 innings pitched for the American League champs (who lost to the Nats in the ‘19 World Series with Harris giving up Howie Kendrick’s foul-pole-clanking, go-ahead home run late in Game 7 — on a pretty good pitch).
Harris struggled in 2020’s 60-game COVID campaign, and finished his first season in D.