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• Washington Nationals vs Detroit Tigers Game Thread 2/2

Rafael Suanes-Imagn Images Follow along as the Nationals look to bounce back from their afternoon drubbing The first game of the double header was ugly for the Nationals. However, the beauty of a double header is that there is another game to bounce back. The Nats will get the chance to bounce back tonight with their ace on the mound. The Nats have made a few changes to their lineup. Luis...2025
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• Washington Nationals vs Detroit Tigers Game Thread 1/2

Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images Follow along as the Nationals take on the dangerous Tigers in game one of a double header After a series win over the Angels, the Nationals got two days off. One was a scheduled off day, the other came because of rain. Now they are ready to start July following a tough June. They will start against the Tigers who have the best record in the American League. Wit...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Goodbye June, hello July

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images The trade deadline and draft approach. Clayton Kershaw is on the verge of 3000 strikeouts. What’s wrong with the Mets? The Moon Mammoths are born and other news around baseball. Good morning. It’s July already. It’s getting late early, as Yogi would say. Will Leitch has seven questions as we head into July. Mark Feinsand looks at the biggest trade...2025
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2342: The Extension Extension

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the return of Richard Lovelady, the MLB season debut of knuckleballer Matt Waldron, the superlative Zack Wheeler, how other knuckleballers in baseball are faring, Rich Hill’s wait for a call-up, Shohei Ohtani vs. Vinnie Pasquantino, Jacob Misiorowski and the leaguewide rise in pitcher extension, James Wood’s four intentional […]...2025
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• So You’ve Intentionally Walked James Wood. What Now?

Let’s see how Wood's historic game against the Angels fits into (and stands out from) baseball’s other four-IBB affairs....2025
• The anatomy of the Washington Nationals epic June swoon

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images The Nationals had a brutal month of June. I broke down how things went off the rails for Davey Martinez and company When the month of June started, there was a lot of optimism surrounding the Washington Nationals. They had gone 15-12 in May and were coming off a west coast trip where they won series against the Mariners and Diamondbacks, both quality opponents. Thi...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 30, 2025

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images More losses at home. The Royals lose another home series. “We’re in a rut,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “Every team goes through something like this. “This is prolonged for us, and we are not hiding from that. We need ... to stack wins together. And that’s why it’s disappointing today that we didn’t.” Anne Rogers writes about the struggles pla...2025
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• James Wood got the Barry Bonds treatment from the Los Angeles Angels

Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images Despite not being an All-Star finalist, Washington Nationals star James Wood got shown the ultimate sign of respect The Washington Nationals won a wild 7-4 11 inning affair to get their first series win of the month. There were a lot of crazy storylines, from Drew Millas’ big day to Kyle Finnegan’s heroic 3 inning outing. However, the story of the afternoon was...2025
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• Nationals’ James Wood accomplishes feat last done by Barry Bonds

Washington Nationals left fielder James Wood received a treatment on Sunday that no hitter has been subjected to since Barry Bonds’ heyday....2025
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• Halfway Through 2025, What Are the Washington Nationals Telling Us?

Washington Nationals shortstop CJ Abrams (5) and left fielder James Wood (29) celebrate a victory after defeating the Los Angeles Angels 15-9 at Angel Stadium. | Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images From brutal lows to flashes of promise, here’s what the first half of the Nationals’ season has revealed and what it means for the road ahead. 2025 has been a disappointing season for the Washington ...2025
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• Nick Pivetta pitches shutout, bullpen locks down win for Padres

Nick Pivetta | Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images San Diego beats Washington to win second consecutive series Nick Pivetta got one run of support from the San Diego Padres lineup, but he made that standup against the Washington Nationals and led his team to a 1-0 win at Petco Park, Wednesday. Powered by Piv. pic.twitter.com/TReikE9C2b— San Diego Padres (@Padres) June 25, 2025 Pive...2025
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• Five potential trade partners for the Royals as the deadline approaches

Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images Will the Royals be buyers or sellers... Or both??? The trade deadline is rapidly approaching for the Royals, and the question of what they should do has become a point of great contention. Many reports have surfaced that the Royals will be on the hunt for a corner outfielder who can impact the offense in 2025 and beyond. There will be several options, but findin...2025
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• Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers Host Free-Falling Nationals

Washington Nationals outfielder James Wood (29) celebrates with Nationals shortstop CJ Abrams (5) after hitting a two run home run against the Colorado Rockies during the fourth inning at Nationals Park. | Geoff Burke-Imagn Images Winners of 10 of their last 12, Los Angeles welcomes a slumping Nationals squad desperate to stop the skid, but slowing down Ohtani and company won’t be easy. W...2025
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• Rockies 10, Nationals 6: So. Many. Homers.

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images The Rockies smashed their way to a 2-0 series lead. Update: After the game, Thomas Harding provided an update on Thairo Estrada: The #Rockies    said 2B Thairo Estrada left Tuesday's game with what was diagnosed as a right hand contusion and is day to day. Estrada was hit by a pitch. He missed the early part of the season with a right wrist fracture after being h...2025
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• Nationals Prospects: Daylen Lile looking to take advantage of his second chance in MLB

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images Daylen Lile hit his first MLB home run last night and is looking to make more noise now that he is back in the show Daylen Lile got called up only a couple days after his more famous Triple-A teammate Robert Hassell III got his call up. Both were needed after Jacob Young and Dylan Crews went down with injuries. When Young came back from his ailment, Lile got demote...2025
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• Nationals Prepare for Gritty Battle Against Division Leading Mets

; Washington Nationals right fielder Alex Call (17) is congratulated by left fielder James Wood (29) after hitting solo home run against the Texas Rangers during the fourth inning at Nationals Park. | Brad Mills-Imagn Images With playoff implications mounting, Washington aims to upset the Mets and make a statement in this intense divisional clash. Sitting at 30-35 and third in the National...2025
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• Rockies 10, Nationals 6: So. Many. Homers.
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"They have to feel good about that and Federal Baseball is feeling really good about their budding star player, James Wood."

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"He allowed a one-out single and walk, then struck out Crews and James Wood to end it for the save, his third."

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"Of those, only three are particularly noteworthy: James Wood, CJ Abrams, and Mackenzie Gore."

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"The Padres sent Robert Hassell and James Wood to the Nationals in the Soto-Bell trade."

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"The Padres have signed second round draft pick James Wood to a $2."

• Outside The Confines: Goodbye June, hello July
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• Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani keeps getting better

Peter Aiken-Imagn Images He just achieved a new personal best. Happy Monday, everyone! We’re getting awfully close to the All-Star break, which feels impossible to say, because surely the season just started a month ago, but that also means we’ve got all sorts of fun news and speculation. For starters, bona fide double-threat Shohei Ohtani just outdid himself, setting a new personal best...2025
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• Halfway Through 2025, What Are the Washington Nationals Telling Us?
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• Padres want to close the book on Juan Soto trade, Nats’ young star adds to the story

Washington Nationals James Wood | Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Former top prospect, James Wood, went 3-13 with a HR and 6 RBIs in his first series at Petco Park. The San Diego Padres and the Washington Nationals will forever be linked because of the Juan Soto trade. This week’s three-game set did not need more fireworks, as one of the cornerstone pieces from the Nats’ perspective...2025
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• Nick Pivetta pitches shutout, bullpen locks down win for Padres
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• Washington Nationals vs San Diego Padres Game Thread

David Frerker-Imagn Images Follow along as the Nats look to win their first series of the month in San Diego After losing last night, the Nationals are now 5-17 in June. They are playing better recently, but the results still are not good enough. Getting a series win today would be a huge step in the right direction. They have not won a series in June, so getting one here would be big. Wit...2025
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• The Washington Nationals are in last place

Brad Mills-Imagn Images Despite big promises, the Nationals are back in a familiar spot in the standings, last place 80 games into the 2025 season, the Washington Nationals are in a familiar spot, last place. With the rebuild now 4.5 seasons deep, this was not supposed to happen, especially with a team like the Marlins in the division. On paper, the Nationals should be way ahead of a team ...2025
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• Padres come from behind to beat Nationals

Martin Maldonado and Robert Suarez | David Frerker-Imagn Images San Diego bullpen works six scoreless innings after Ryan Bergert leaves game in the third San Diego Padres starting pitcher Ryan Bergert was hit by a line drive off the bat of Washington Nationals left fielder Jacob Young. The play knocked Bergert out of the game and forced the San Diego bullpen into action. Ryan Bergert exi...2025
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• Five potential trade partners for the Royals as the deadline approaches
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• Washington Nationals stars showing the Padres what they missed out on

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images James Wood and CJ Abrams led the Nats to victory and showed Padres fans what could have been Last night in San Diego, James Wood and CJ Abrams put on a show as the Nationals beat the Padres 10-6. I couldn’t help but think what Padres fans were thinking as they watched two of their draft picks dominate them. The Padres are a better baseball team than the Nats, there...2025
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• The anatomy of the Washington Nationals epic June swoon
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• Nationals James Wood’s All-Star snub shows the deep flaws in the fan voting system

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images Washington Nationals star James Wood deserves to start in the All-Star game but is being robbed by a silly fan voting system The MLB announced the results for the All-Star finalists Yesterday. Top vote getters advanced to the next phase of the weirdly complicated All-Star fan voting. The top 2 catchers and infielders advanced and the top 6 outfielders from each lea...2025
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• Washington Nationals vs San Diego Padres Game Thread
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• The Washington Nationals are in last place
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• Five potential trade partners for the Royals as the deadline approaches
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• The Washington Nationals Offense Is Fundamentally Broken

Washington Post Going on their 4th straight year of a below league average offense, it’s time to stop letting the coaching staff ruin the Nats’ young bats with their bad advice The Nationals' offensive struggles in June have been well documented, but it hasn’t just been a month-long or even season-long struggle for them to score; it’s an issue that stems back several years now. 2021 was th...2025
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• Nationals Prospects: Daylen Lile looking to take advantage of his second chance in MLB
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• Marlins Sweep Nationals as Losing Streak Reaches 8 Straight and Tension Grows in the Clubhouse

Field Level Media Nats offense flatlines again and dismay grows in the clubhouse about Davey’s postgame comments yesterday Despite the shakeup in lineup order which saw Alex Call leading off and CJ Abrams hitting third, the Nationals offense looked completely flat again today, going 0-9 with RISP and grounding into 2 rally extinguishing double plays as they lose 3-1 to the Marlins to compl...2025
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• The Washington Nationals rebuild has hit a crisis point

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images Things are getting ugly in the Nation’s Capital, with frustration boiling over a stalled out rebuild The 2025 Washington Nationals just hit rock bottom last night. They dropped their seventh straight game with 4-3 loss to the Marlins. The false comebacks that come up short due are feeling increasingly hollow. Talk of how the “boys battled” has become more stale tha...2025
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• Who’s to Blame for the Nationals 7-Game Skid? Not Davey Martinez and His Staff, According to Him

Brad Mills-Imagn Images The fake comeback kids do it again as Nats rally falls short in the late innings for the third straight game It was an all too familiar result for the Nats today, as despite their best attempts in the 9th to pull off the 4 run comeback, they fall short as James Wood pops out with the bases loaded. Despite the rare solid start from Trevor Williams, who went 5 1⁄3 in...2025
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• The anatomy of the Washington Nationals epic June swoon
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• Halfway Through 2025, What Are the Washington Nationals Telling Us?
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• Washington Nationals use their big bats to win a wild game

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images Just a couple days after being shutout, the Nationals offense exploded in Anaheim The Nationals offense showed just how bipolar they can be these last two games. In the last game of the Padres series, they could get nothing going. It was painful to watch Nats hitters try to do something against Nick Pivetta. However, they showed what they can do last night. With Jo...2025
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• Padres want to close the book on Juan Soto trade, Nats’ young star adds to the story
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• The Washington Nationals are in last place
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• Luis Garcia Jr. is swinging a red hot bat for the Washington Nationals

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images Luis Garcia Jr. has been a hitting machine after overcoming a slow start to the season The discussion for most of the season has been that the Nationals lineup does not have much behind CJ Abrams and James Wood. There was some truth to this for a lot of the season. Nathaniel Lowe got into a prolonged slump, Keibert Ruiz has fallen off after a hot start, and Josh Be...2025
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• Washington Nationals CJ Abrams has worked his way out of his slump

Kirby Lee-Imagn Images After slumping for a couple weeks, CJ Abrams is a force at the top of the lineup again for the Washington Nationals A couple weeks ago, CJ Abrams was mired in one of his prolonged slumps. We have gotten all too familiar with these CJ slumps over the past couple years. They are sudden and tend to last a long time. Abrams had a two week stretch at the end of May and ea...2025
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• James Wood Beats The Rockies As Washington Nationals Stop Skid

Nats narrowly avoid 12th straight loss thanks to James Wood late game heroics It was looking like an all too familiar ending for the Nats as they trailed 3-2 entering the bottom of the 11th inning. That was, however, until James Wood had perhaps his biggest hit as a Nat yet, a 2-run blast to give the Nationals the 4-3 victory and avoid tying the franchise record in consecutive losses. The Nats jum...2025
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• Rockies 3, Nationals 1: 4 wins in a row!

Brad Mills-Imagn Images Rockies riding longest winning streak since May of 2024 Five Rockies pitchers combined to hold the Nationals to one run and Michael Toglia and Jordan Beck homered as Colorado (17-57) won its fourth game in a row. Washington (30-44), meanwhile, lost its 11th straight in a game that was delayed 1 hour and 45 minutes by rain on Wednesday. Homers Keep Coming Michael Tog...2025
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• Who will save the Washington Nationals?

Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images As the losing streak reaches double-digits, it is tough to see who will save the Washington Nationals The Washington Nationals are hitting rock bottom every night. They have no lost 10 straight games, with five of them coming against the Marlins and Rockies. The season is lost and things have spiraled out of control. As Chelsea Janes wrote, the Nationals can no...2025
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• Cubs 5, Nationals 3: Keeping the line moving

Rafael Suanes-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs again put together a big rally and held on for the win. There’s something about this team... I suspect you see it too. It took nearly the entire season to get there, but now the Chicago Cubs don’t seem to mind if they fall behind. There’s always a rally within them, and that was the case again Saturday in a come-from-behind 5-3 win over the Nationals...2024
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• The diverging futures of Bobby Witt and Brady Singer

One should be a Royal for life, and the other should find success with a different team. It is almost September and the Royals’ season is winding down. There’s little left for Royals fans to see as the team is well out of the division race and even if players have a sudden hot streak at this point it will be hard to overcome what came for the entire season before. There might be a few big league d...2023
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• Robbie’s RBI rip reinforces Royals relief retinue in 3-0 rout

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images The magic number is down to 3. In a matchup of two struggling offenses, the Kansas City Royals scored more runs than they had in the previous four games combined in a 3-0 victory over the Washington Nationals. The starting pitchers were in control early, with Michael Lorenzen and DJ Herz allowing just three combined baserunners across the first two innings. In the...2024
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• Will Klein selected to represent Royals at the Futures Game
Will Klein Triple-A debut on June 14, 2023 | Minda Haas Kuhlmann The right-handed reliever has enjoyed a terrific first half. Will Klein will represent the Royals at the Futures Game during All-Star week in Seattle as rosters were announced today. The 23-year old has a 3.38 ERA for Northwest Arkansas before he was recently promoted to Triple-A Omaha. Overall he has a 3.31 ERA with 55 strik...2023
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• Braves News: Atlanta wins on the road, trade rumors (already), Craig Kimbrel, and more

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday Last night was a rare sight, indeed — at least as far as this season is concerned. The Atlanta Braves ended up cruising to a victory, on the road, in the NL West, no less. Indeed, this looked more like the Braves that we’re used to seeing in Cobb County — especially considering that they had a big eighth inn...2025
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• Nationals Release Zach Davies, Reassign Several Top Prospects To Minor League Camp
The Nationals announced Friday that they’ve released veteran right-hander Zach Davies, who’d been in camp on a minor league contract. Washington also reassigned veteran lefty Richard Bleier, first baseman Juan Yepez, and top prospects James Wood, Brady House, Dylan Crews and Robert Hassell III to minor league camp. Bleier and Yepez, like Davies, were in…...2024
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• Rockies 10, Nationals 6: So. Many. Homers.
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• Nationals 2, Cubs 0: First-inning failure

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images The Cubs got great pitching Wednesday... but the Nats did better than that. You certainly can’t blame Cubs pitching for the 2-0 loss to the Nationals Wednesday in Washington. Matthew Boyd was stellar, retiring the first 16 Nats he faced and allowing just two runs. Fun fact: Before this game, the Cubs were 20-0 this year when allowing two or fewer runs. Welp...2025
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• Rosters In Flux- Preseason Draft Prep March 2, 2025
As Spring Training rolls on, every day seems to bring up stories of injuries and prospects causing teams to examine who they are going to be putting on their rosters and in their starting lineups in a few weeks when the games start to count. Giancarlo Stanton- DH- NYY- The injury news about Stanton continues to be negative. He will definitely start the 2025 season on the IL. He has received PRP i...2025
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• Preseason Draft Prep - February 20, 2025
Mariners Starting Rotation The Mariners' starting rotation is fascinating. Luis Castillo is the veteran with the most impressive resume, but he could turn out to be the worst starter on the team by the end of the season. He is certainly the oldest at 32 years old. In fact, every other Seattle starter is 27 years old or younger. The youth-infused rotation is buoyed by a pitcher-friendly ballpark an...2025
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• Preseason Prep - March 12, 2024
Edward Cabrera, SP (MIA) Cabrera, who has looked very sharp this spring, is possibly facing an extended absence. The young right-hander was scratched from Sunday's start with shoulder tightness, and on Monday manager Skip Schumaker said Cabrera is going to get an MRI. Cabrera's spring performance (5 IP, 0 R, 5 K) had seemingly locked up a spot in the Marlins rotation, but results from the MRI coul...2024
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• Washington Nationals Top 10 Prospects for 2023 Fantasy Baseball
If you’re gonna pull the early plug on a contention window, you better walk away with some future stars. To their credit, the Nationals did that. A better move might’ve been to hold Trea Turner in 2021 and hope for the best in 2022, but that wasn’t the play this team wanted to make, preferring to off-load Max Scherzer’s deferred money along with their star shortstop. 2022 then became an exercise i...2022
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• Soto You Juan To See A Blockbuster Trade?
Engine revs. It's the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile. Only instead of a Oscar Mayer hat on its front hood, it's wearing a Padres cap. It's staring down a lonely country road. Directly, a mile down, aimed right at it is the Dodgers' team bus. The Dodgers' team bus revs. A half mile in front of each of them, at the midpoint is "1st place in the NL West." What we have here is a game a chicken. Who will ge...2022
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• Prospect News: Top 15 for 2023 First-Year-Player Dynasty Drafts
I try to take a fairly simplistic view of the draft. My mind resists at times because the Major League Baseball Draft is an exercise in antitrust-exemption hyper-capitalism run amok, spotlighting primarily the lucky few blessed with generational gifts of wealth and circumstance along with their considerable physical skills. It’s a barefaced look at how structures that appear to be egalitarian in t...2022
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• Washington Nationals vs Detroit Tigers Game Thread 2/2
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• The anatomy of the Washington Nationals epic June swoon
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 30, 2025
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• James Wood got the Barry Bonds treatment from the Los Angeles Angels
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• Washington Nationals vs Los Angeles Angels Game Thread

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images Follow along as the struggling Nats take on the surprisingly solid Angels It is no secret that June has not been kind to the Nats. A 5-18 June has sent the season and the rebuild into a tailspin. However, the Nats have a chance to finish the month strong against a scrappy Angels team that is sitting at .500. The Nats will role out a familiar lineup to start the sec...2025
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• Nationals Look to Build on Momentum vs. Angels: Can Rising Stars Shine in Anaheim?

Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez (4) watches play during the seventh inning against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. | David Frerker-Imagn Images CJ Abrams and James Wood headline a young Nationals core looking to make noise in Anaheim as Washington faces the Angels in a West Coast showdown. Coming off a close series loss to the San Diego Padres, Washington is going thro...2025
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• Padres want to close the book on Juan Soto trade, Nats’ young star adds to the story
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• Nick Pivetta pitches shutout, bullpen locks down win for Padres
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• Outside The Confines: Shohei Ohtani keeps getting better
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• Nationals Look to Build on Momentum vs. Angels: Can Rising Stars Shine in Anaheim?
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• Nationals Prospects: Daylen Lile looking to take advantage of his second chance in MLB
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• James Wood and Pete Crow-Armstrong are two young superstars who do things very differently

Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images The Washington Nationals James Wood and the Chicago Cubs Pete Crow-Armstrong are young stud outfielders, but they are so different With the Chicago Cubs coming to DC, we are going to see two of the most exciting young outfielders in the sport in James Wood and Pete Crow-Armstrong. Both were highly touted outfield prospects who were traded early in their develop...2025
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• The Washington Nationals hit a home run with the Juan Soto trade, but Mike Rizzo needs to capitalize

Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images The Juan Soto trade return gave the Nationals a young core, but can they build a winner around them before it is too late On August 2nd, 2022, the Washington Nationals future changed forever. The Nationals sent Josh Bell and more importantly superstar outfielder Juan Soto to the Padres for a six player haul. That haul consisted of CJ Abrams, MacKenzie Gore, Ja...2025
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• Braves at Nationals series preview: “Wait, it’s y’all again? Already?”

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Also, the Braves are getting Spencer Strider back, so that’s cool. Last week, the Atlanta Braves played the Washington Nationals over four games and things went pretty well for the Braves. Atlanta’s now over .500 and playing the Nationals once again — this time for three games and in Washington D.C. As it turns out, the Braves are going to be facing a Nationa...2025
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• Washington Nationals clinch a series win against floundering Orioles

Daniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images James Wood and the Nationals jumped on the Orioles in a first inning explosion that gave them the win The Baltimore Orioles got no new manager bounce after firing Brandon Hyde earlier today. Orioles starter Kyle Gibson was really struggling entering his start against the Nats. Despite the Nationals recent struggles against starting pitchers, they came out swin...2025
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• Drake Baldwin and AJ Smith-Shawver shine in win against Nationals

Smith-Shawver had another strong start | Dale Zanine-Imagn Images Baldwin finished the Nationals series going seven for nine, and Smith-Shawver had zero earned runs and six strikeouts in six innings of work as Braves win The Braves took on the Nationals as they looked to reach a .500 record again with a pitching matchup that looked to be in the Braves’ favor. AJ Smith-Shawver faced off aga...2025
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• Best of times, worst of times for Washington Nationals in chaotic Coors Field win

Christopher Hanewinckel-Imagn Images A perfect Washington Nationals win almost turned into an all time disaster as the bullpen nearly blew a 10 run lead It was the best of times for the Washington Nationals. James Wood and Dylan Crews both went three for five with four RBI’s. It was the first time in their young careers that both outfielders homered in the same game. Dylan Crews homers f...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Dodgers look like the cream of the crop but there are several teams that could challenge for their crown. Every Major League Baseball team begins a brand new baseball season with hope. In the spring of 1993, as a fresh-faced 16-year-old Phillies fan living in suburban bliss, I had no right to believe that summer was going to be anythin...2025
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