by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
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Second time in a week, and the Washington Nationals will be facing their former ace Max Scherzer in a Grapefruit League game. Scherzer’s former Mets’ teammate, Trevor Williams is scheduled to start for the Nats. This game will be televised on the MLB app and some viewers will get to watch on the MLB Network. Continue reading
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Maybe yesterday’s game, with multiple pitching changes during innings, will be more indicative of the length of a real baseball game at 2 hours and 30 minutes. Maybe ESPN slowed things down a little. Or maybe it was the injury timeouts. Starting pitcher Cory Abbott was nailed by a 112 mph shot off of his leg from Giancarlo Stanton then there were three HBPs on Washington Nationals’ batters, and a pulled hammy by Derek Hill that could end his spring. All-in-all, the Nats left Tampa with lots of bumps and bruises as well as Gerardo Carrillo‘s bruised ego after he surrendered a walk-off two-run homer to career minor leaguer, Carlos Narvaez, who has never played above High-A ball. On one-pitch, it’s the highs and lows of baseball. Continue reading
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We have Washington Nationals baseball today on national TV. Thanks to Aaron Judge and the Yankees for getting ESPN to cover this game. In the NYC area, the YES Network will provide TV for the home team today in Tampa. These two teams will meet again at the end of March at Nationals Park to wrap up the preseason in an exhibition game two days prior to Opening Day. Recently, Steve Phillips of MLB Network Radio compared Nats’ top prospect James Wood to Judge. Well, today they will both be on the same field and maybe even taking a photo together. Come to think of it, Jim Bowden comp’d Wood to Giancarlo Stanton, and he’s playing for the Yankees in this game also.
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We have Washington Nationals baseball today, but unless you have someone streaming it from their camera for you or you are actually at the game, you are out of luck on the visual. But don’t fret, the Cardinals were kind enough to send a radio crew to the game, and that is available on the MLB app.
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Finally, we have MLB Pipeline’s Top-30 prospects for the Washington Nationals. Evaluations are all over the place with respect to the 2023 prospects in baseball, and with independent thinkers, you would expect that past the top five or six prospects that evaluators would have their differences. We got Baseball America’s Top-30 prospects last week. In baseball, MLB Pipeline and Baseball America are the standards for rankings. At MLB.com, they of course use their own site to quote from; however we have seen Baseball America rankings used when it gives a better picture.
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Photo of the front gates of Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium in Jupiter by Sol Tucker for TalkNats.com
It is Opening Day in Spring Training in the Grapefruit League for the Washington Nationals. We will also get our first game looks at MacKenzie Gore in a Nats uniform albeit the plan is to pitch him just one inning today. Also, we will get our first looks at life with mandatory pitch clocks, as well as new defensive shift rules. Continue reading
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On a quiet workout day in Spring Training, news broke that Keibert Ruiz was changing agents from Scott Boras to the Octagon Agency’s Gustavo Marcano. The strangest part about this news was that Ruiz had switched from another agent to Boras almost immediately after the Dodgers traded him to the Nationals in 2021. Continue reading
FREDRICKSBURG, VA: James Wood celebrates a home run (Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats)
Evaluations are all over the place with respect to the 2023 prospects in baseball. FanGraphs came out with their Top-112 prospects today, and yesterday, Baseball America ranked the Washington Nationals Top-30 prospects. Prospects Live came out with their rankings also. It just shows that 10 different people can look at the same athlete and see something else. Continue reading
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