by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day. The Washington Nationals got some of the luck of the Irish and have clawed back to .500 with a win in yesterday’s game to improve to 8-8-1. Not that Spring Training wins are indicative of what the regular season can look like, it is just nice to see some well-played games. Continue reading
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With yesterday’s game rained out, it won’t be replayed. That makes this the 17th game of Spring Training. What’s more, both Patrick Corbin and Josiah Gray pitched on the minor league side of camp. All of that changes up the pitcher for this game. The Nats will hand the ball to Wily Peralta who becomes critical starter’s depth with Cade Cavalli lost for the year to a UCL tear.
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The news that was expected on Cade Cavalli‘s elbow was realized this morning when Nationals’ general manager, Mike Rizzo, announced that the right-handed pitcher Cade Cavalli will undergo Tommy John Surgery. The prospect suffered a grade 3 UCL sprain during his last Grapefruit outing. In the press release, Rizzo announced that Cavalli would miss the entire 2023 season as expected with a Grade 3 strain which is a total tear of the UCL. With a total tear revealed in the MRI, it left no guesswork for second opinions, and Cavalli should have the surgery within in the next week. Continue reading
WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 9, 2018: Jayson Werth hugs Mark Lerner with Ted Lerner looking on during a pregame ceremony for Werth’s induction into the National’s Ring of Honor Saturday night. (Marlene Koenig for TalkNats)
The Washington Nationals should have the year of 2025 circled as their year to really compete for a postseason berth. When Ted Lerner was running the team, he had a vision for the future of building a champion. You take your lumps when you are a bad team, and like any builder knows, it’s all about the process. Some have compared it to sausage making. Lerner had said it was not too different from building a business from scratch.
The team was a mess when the family bought it in mid-2006 with the worst farm system in baseball. It basically had Ian Desmond and that was about it. The team Lerner bought had a decimated farm system from the Expos’ years of bad drafts, awful decisions, and the Bartolo Colon trade in 2002 that cost the “future” team Cliff Lee, Brandon Phillips, Grady Sizemore and Lee Stevens. After the season, the Expos traded Colon with only 17-games pitched in a Montreal uni, for a haul of nothing. None of those players were around when the Expos became the Nats two years later. That Colon trade gave away a haul reminiscent of the Juan Soto trade. Cleveland got three minor leaguers in Lee, Phillips, and Sizemore and before you know it, each had gone to multiple All-Star games after the trade. Continue reading
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We are back in Jupiter, Florida against the Miami Marlins. Their lineup will look much different with so many players participating in the World Baseball Classic. For the Nationals, they changed from Jake Irvin starting this game to Patrick Corbin. The Nats will be without Cade Cavalli for a while as he suffered an elbow injury and will be getting an MRI today. The Nats did not waste time as manager Dave Martinez named Chad Kuhl as his new fifth starter in a rotation with MacKenzie Gore, Trevor Williams, Josiah Gray and Corbin. Continue reading
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The Washington Nationals had a stunning come-from-behind win yesterday with five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to shock the Astros. The team’s №1 draft pick from last year, Elijah Green, came up big with a hustle triple that would have been a stand-up double for most. Green plated two runs with the triple and then Michael Chavis put the winner in the books with a two-run homer. Sure, they weren’t facing the Astros’ closer or even a player who will make their roster, but you take what the game gives you. Continue reading
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In Spring Training, Joey Meneses departed a week ago to meet up with Team Mexico in Arizona for the World Baseball Classic. To that point, it was a lackluster first big league camp for Meneses and the Washington Nationals. He was batting at ‘Mendoza’ with a .438 OPS. Four singles and no extra-base hits in just 20 ABs. Some began questioning the kid from Culiacán as if he was one and done. Nats fans have seen it before with others, and skepticism will always be there until you prove them wrong. Continue reading
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First things first, did you turn your clocks forward an hour? Great, we have 1:05 pm ET game today against the Cardinals in Jupiter. Many of the Cardinals are participating in the WBC, and the Washington Nationals are sending most of their starters to play in this game which is just north of West Palm Beach. The 14-mile drive up I-95 is a close one for Nats’ fans to attend games there. Continue reading
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The difference a day makes as Keibert Ruiz has changed the overall tenor in the fan base by signing an 8-year extension with two years of team options. When you are coming off a 107-loss season, you can understand why so many in the fan base are deflated. This was a pick-me-up for so many to put some air back into the sails.
The 4-7-1 Washington Nationals have Josiah Gray back on the mound against the Mets. The Nats were supposed to be facing Kodai Senga but he was scratched due to a finger injury. Continue reading
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