SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Padres have signed right-handed pitcher Daison Acosta to a one-year contract through the 2026 season, President of Baseball Operations and General Manager A.J. Preller announced today.
Acosta, 27, spent the 2025 season in the Washington Nationals system, recording a 5-1 record with a career-best 2.42 ERA (14 ER, 52.0 IP), a .195 opponents’ average (36-for-185) and 72 strikeouts to 27 walks across 46 games with Triple-A Rochester (19 G), Double-A Harrisburg (26 G) and Single-A Fredericksburg (1 G). Among qualified relievers in the Washington system, he ranked first with a 12.46 strikeout per 9.0 innings pitched rate while ranking second in strikeouts and third in ERA. From the month of May through the end of the 2025 season, he recorded scoreless outings in 30 of 36 appearances with a 1.09 ERA (5 ER, 41.1 IP), a .163 opponents’ average (23-for-141), 0.97 WHIP and 13.50 strikeout per 9.0 innings pitched. On the year, he held right-handed hitters to a .154/.250/.209 slash line with just five extra-base hits (all doubles) with 40 strikeouts to just nine walks.
Originally signed by the New York Mets as a non-drafted free agent in 2016 and later selected by Washington in the third round of the minor league phase of the 2023 Rule 5 Draft, the Paraiso, Dominican Republic native owns a career 22-25 record with 20 saves, a 3.59 ERA (146 ER, 365.2 IP) and a .216 opponents’ average (289-for-1,337) across 188 games (40 starts) and 10 minor league seasons between the Mets (2016-23) and the Nationals (2024-25) systems.