by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
The Washington Nationals finished their suspended game from last night with a 7-5 extra innings win, and by doing so got their road record to .500 at 22-22. This game is the second game of this doubleheader, and Jake Alu has been called up as the 27th player.
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The Washington Nationals returned from the All-Star break on a high-note for the MLB players, and the organization that crushed it in the MLB Draft. Josiah Gray pitched a perfect 1-2-3 inning in the actual All-Star game, and top prospects James Wood and Brady House impressed during the All-Star Futures game. The Nats have won 4-of-their-previous-5 series, and started off the traditional second half of the baseball season in St. Louis, and of course it rained.
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The Washington Nationals will begin their 2024 season on the road in Cincinnati on March 28. That will be a short three-game road series with the Reds through that weekend with the Nats’ home opener on April 1 against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday. Could we see Paul Skenes against Dylan Crews in a matchup? You have to wonder given the new CBA’s rules on what is known as the Prospect Promotion Incentive (PPI). Just ask the Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles how that worked out or did not work out respectively.
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The 2023 MLB Draft was a smashing success for the Washington Nationals with two elite players in Dylan Crews and Yohandy Morales, and that can change all the strategies on how general manager Mike Rizzo approaches his off-season. If you go by Baseball America’s final rankings of the draft class, they ranked Crews as the №1 player overall, and Morales at №27. Two clear first round talents. By the way, Bleacher Report ranked the Nats’ draft as the best with an A+. After adding two skilled bats like this to the mix, the Nats focus in free agency should put almost all of their financial resources into securing a true ace of the pitching staff for the long-term, via free agency.
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The real winners of the draft must be based on the actual signings, and the Washington Nationals front office will continue to work on finalizing contracts for their Big-3 picks from rounds 1-to-3 of Dylan Crews, Yohandy Morales, and Travis Sykora. Based on the rankings of those players in pre-draft evaluations, the Nationals come away as BIG winners with three players of first round talent. Each are already seeded into our Top-12 prospects in the Nats’ system.
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People can choose their outlook on life — but if you are not more optimistic today as a Washington Nationals fan than you were on August 2, 2022, I don’t know what to tell you. The Nats pulled off the start to a great draft, a day after watching their two best prospects, James Wood and Brady House, who shined in the All-Star Futures Game. Drafting Dylan Crews at №2 overall in the Draft with Yohandy Morales at №40, just netted the Nats two of the best near-ready college bats in the draft. To start day 2 of the draft, the Nats went for more first round talent and scored Travis Sykora who pitched at the same Round Rock High School in Texas as Mason Thompson and Jared McKenzie, as well as former Nats outfielder Ryan Langerhans. Sykora was committed to University of Texas, but it sounds like he will sign with the Nats.
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The Washington Nationals made it official with a pick of Dylan Crews after the Pittsburgh Pirates shocked the baseball world and drafted Paul Skenes at No. 1 overall. General manager Mike Rizzo said the team would go slow to start Crews off in the system, and that means they won’t start him at Double-A out of the gates. After scouting director, Kris Kline, rattled off the names of five players a few days ago that the Nats could pick in the first round, he spoke about Skenes first, Wyatt Langford second, Max Clark third, Walker Jenkins fourth, and Crews as the fifth player he spoke in-depth about. Maybe Kline knew then that Crews was the guy.
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The Washington Nationals smashed their way to a decisive 8-3 victory yesterday over Texas. Today, they go for a series win in the final game before the All-Star break — and the MLB Draft. Today is a reminder that all of the pieces given up in the Adam Eaton blockbuster trade are still very active in the MLB. That December 7 trade of 2016 extricated the Nats’ three highest ranked pitching prospects to complete the deal which included the No. 1 prospect in all of baseball, Lucas Giolito, and young fireballer Reynaldo López, and the final piece was the Texas Rangers’ starter Dane Dunning who is 8-1 this season with a 2.61 ERA.
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This is a star-studded weekend for the Washington Nationals in showcasing their Top-2 prospects — and two of the best players in all of minor league baseball at Saturday’s All-Star Futures Game in Seattle, Washington. As it stands today, James Wood will be the №5 ranked prospect and Brady House will be №72 on MLB Pipeline.
With Seattle hosting this year’s All-Star festivities, the Futures Game will be the must-see TV on Saturday at 7pm EST on Peacock TV. The 7-inning game at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park will feature 50 of the game’s top Minor Leaguers, and by that math you can see that not all teams will have two players representing them. This is the 24th edition of baseball’s greatest prospect showcase. House, a shortstop converted to third baseman this year went from Single-A to a promotion to High-A Wilmington already this season, and Wood, an outfielder was promoted from Wilmington to Double-A Harrisburg in an early season promotion.
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