Can you smell it? Are your baseball senses tingling? Soon, the hot dogs will be on the grill, the popcorn poppin’, and the freshly cut green grass can excite the brain after a long cold winter. It is hard to believe that with all of the snow still on the ground in the DMV that we are just 35 days to Opening Day, and the first Spring Training games for the Washington Nationals are on Saturday.
We discussed the Nationals roster in a three part set of articles on the position players, the starting rotation, and the bullpen. And Sao Magnifico did his annual Who’s Who at Spring Training camp. All but one of the coaches is new. Even James Wood said he had mistaken a coach as a player. The photos we have seen need in-depth research. A photo of an unidentified catcher with tattoos on his left arm turned out to be bullpen catcher Jarrett Gonzalez.
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