Category Archives: SpringTraining

The Nats will have a game under the lights at 6:05 at Champion Stadium in Disney World against the Braves. Tanner Roark will start against former Yankee top prospect Manny Banuelos. The Nats will send a travel roster featuring a … Continue reading →

March 11, 2016 Game:  Mets @ Nats, Space Coast Stadium The game started with the National Anthem as usual—sung by a girl who looked about 6 years old with a great voice and a working microphone. Strasberg may have been … Continue reading →

At 1:05PM today, Wilson Ramos is penciled in to catch Stephen Strasburg with a line-up that looks to be very close to what’s projected for Opening Day! Blake Treinen should also pitch today and go 2 innings with Michael Brady, … Continue reading →

Here’s tonight’s report:  a sequence of random observations. Not an auspicious start to the game:  no one realized that the National Anthem singer’s mike wasn’t on.  But the fans gradually began to sing along with her, starting with the ones … Continue reading →

We’ve all heard some variation on the theme: “Spring Training games don’t matter” and  it actually was brought up today in the in-game post in the variation, “You do realize that this game doesn’t count, right?”. This attitude is understandable:  the … Continue reading →

As the Nats bus travels en route to Lakeland Florida, you have to wonder if they pass any Presidential candidates on this road trip. Today, 2 heavyweights duke it out as Verlander and Gio get the mound to start this … Continue reading →

There are many objectives of Spring Training. One of the objectives every Spring Training is to evaluate players for the roster. Some of the roster spots are spoken for prior to the calendar turning to February; however, there are spots … Continue reading →