Joe Nahas Newest Wild Things Reliever After Signing With Team
AUGUSTA, NJ (July 18) - The Washington Wild Things have signed right hander Joe Nahas, a former Chicago Cubs farmhand, to the active roster in advance of tonight’s series opener against the Sussex County Miners in Augusta, New Jersey. Nahas, a Marian Catholic High School product and Frackville, Pennsylvania, native, was with the South Bends Cubs (High-A) this season
With South Bend this season, Nahas made 13 appearances and worked 18.2 innings. He allowed 27 hits and 15 runs (13 earned) with just four walks and 12 strikeouts. The work came off winter ball time in the Puerto Rican Winter League with Caguas. He was 5-1 there with a 1.85 ERA in 19 appearances from the bullpen. He struck out 24 with four walks in 24.1 innings with 18 hits allowed and six runs against.
Nahas spent 2024 between Double-A Tennessee and High-A South bend, working his way to a combined ERA of 4.02 and a 6-2 record in 31 appearances (two starts). In 69.1 innings, he fanned 74 and walked 26. He did the same in terms of affiliate time in 2023 and had a 4.98 ERA in 36 appearances (four starts). He struck out 59 against 39 walks and 71 hits allowed in 72.1 frames that season. His full 20222 was with South Bend and he had a 4.19 ERA in 86 innings across 24 appearances with 74 punchouts.
He played for Myrtle Beach (A), South bend and Tennessee in 2021. That year, he logged a career-high 92.2 innings and walked only 32 with 89 strikeouts. He was in rookie ball and Low-A (Eugene) in 2019. He played his final collegiate season at Georgia Southern in 2019. He was 2-0 with a 4.78 ERA there in 14 games (six starts). He struck out 42 and walked 14 in 43.1 innings there. He also appeared in five games in the Cape Cod League that summer. He worked to a 1.50 ERA in five games there with two being starts. In 18 innings for Cotuit, he whiffed 27 and walked six.
Nahas’s 2018 collegiate season was at Chesapeake College as he tallied a 3.18 ERA in 73.2 innings with 142 strikeouts. He was 10-1 there in 14 starts with six complete games. He began his college career at UMBC in 2017, where he appeared in six games as a reliever. At Marian Catholic, he was named Republican Herald Second Team All-Area as a junior. In his senior season he sported a school record 0.40 ERA in 53 innings of work. He was named Republican Herald and Times News Player of the Year that season.
Joe will go to the pen for the Wild Things and be active tonight as the club opens the unofficial second half of the season at the Miners at Skylands Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.
