The Washington Nationals have a new marketing slogan, Next Gen Natitude that is part of an advertising campaign. That aligns closely with the buzz in camp among the players and management’s, “The future is now.” Spring Training has been the proving ground so far with key prospects and players who are aged 25-and-under in this organization who are among the top producers.
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The Washington Nationals travel to Port St. Lucie to face the New York Mets at Clover Park. With exactly two weeks remaining in Florida for Grapefruit League games, starting pitchers might be down to their final-3 starts of the pre-season. Jake Irvin takes the mound for the Nats today.
Tomorrow, the Nationals have a day/night doubleheader against the Marlins. Tuesday is the final off-day in Florida on the Grapefruit League schedule. Mitchell Parker is scheduled to pitch the first game on Monday with Shinnosuke Ogasawara getting the start in the evening game.
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The Washington Nationals are home at the CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches for an early afternoon game in West Palm Beach, Florida. With just 15-days remaining in Florida for Grapefruit League games, we will see if DJ Herz, who is pitching today, impresses enough to grab the No. 5 spot in the starting rotation.
Some players have emerged and we posted up the small sample size leaders in OPS and in WHIP yesterday, and it is incredible how quickly things change. Jorge Lopez is no longer the WHIP leader, and Luis Garcia Jr. is no longer the OPS leader. James Wood leads the team in OPS after he homered again last night on a tape measure oppo shot. Top batting average leaders have a tie between Andres Chaparro and Nasim Nunez at .429. Nunez hit the walk-off double to win last night’s game. What we try to look at is process over results because small sample sizes, as well as the strength of the competition, will skew numbers.
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Many pro players scrambled for jobs a year ago when the rules changed, and teams could only carry 165 players across their minor league system. One of those players who was cut a year ago was RHP Chase Solesky. No other MLB organization picked him up initially, and he signed on with an Atlantic League independent team in Hagerstown, Maryland called the Flying Boxcars. After pitching well for Hagerstown, the Nats came calling and signed Solesky to a free agent minor league deal. He was assigned to Double-A Harrisburg as a starting pitcher in mid-June.
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The Washington Nationals are back home at the CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches for an early evening game in West Palm Beach, Florida. With just 16-days remaining in Florida for Grapefruit League games, we are almost at that mid-point mark on the schedule.
Some players have emerged and we posted up the small sample size leaders in OPS and in WHIP. What we try to look at is process over results because small sample sizes as well as the strength of the competition will skew numbers.
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There’s an old saying that goes “nothing succeeds like success” – and that’s certainly true for some MLB teams. These teams find themselves in cycles of extraordinary winning streaks that redefine their seasons. The Washington Nationals would like to catch a hot streak this season.
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So far, so good for Michael Soroka in his two starts in Grapefruit League play. In 2015, the Atlanta Braves chose Soroka in the first round at pick No. 28 from Calgary in Canada. Not exactly a hot bed for All-Star baseball players, yet Soroka was named an All-Star as a rookie, placed second in the Rookie of the Year and sixth in Cy Young voting.
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The Washington Nationals travel to Jupiter today for a game against old friend Erick Fedde and his Cardinals. The Nationals will start Michael Soroka in this one.
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Get ready for four-days of top prospect baseball when all teams will showcase top prospect games with the inaugural SPRING BREAKOUT held from March 13-16 at Grapefruit and Cactus league stadiums starting a week from today and through that weekend. The Washington Nationals will get two Spring Breakout games that will be played on March 14 and March 16. The Cubs and Nationals are the only teams playing in two games this year.
The “Spring Breakout” game, which was a new concept that debuted last year, fields rosters of team’s future stars for a showcase in the middle of the Spring Training schedule. Teams are paired against nearby teams in the Grapefruit and Cactus leagues, and the Nats prospects will face the Astros prospects in the Friday night exhibition game and then the Mets prospects in the Sunday exhibition game.
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From the long winter in Washington, D.C., baseball fans can vicariously enjoy what their favorite baseball players are feeling in the sunshine at Spring Training. This is the time for dreaming about the future. A time of hope. Each team is tied at this time of year at 0-0 in the regular season. The Washington Nationals are talking like a team that believes they are better than how the “so-called” experts are projecting them. Their new marketing slogan is NexGenNatitude with visions of the young prospects and core of promising players.
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