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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Jake Irvin & “one bad pitch”; Nats drop opener with A’s in extras, 2-1...

Notes and quotes from the Nats’ series opener with the A’s in Oakland Coliseum... With two on and two out in the third inning of his outing against the Phillies last week in Nationals Park — after a two-out double by Trea Turner and an intentional walk to Bryce Harper — Jake Irvin got up 0-2 on J.T. Realmuto, but left the next pitch, a curve, up in the zone for Philadelphia’s catcher. Realmuto hi...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Lane Thomas and Nats beat Giants, 8-1 in series opener; Sean Doolittle ❤️ ...

Notes and quotes from the series opener in Oracle Park... OFFENSE IN ORACLE: Lane Thomas started the season 2 for 28 with no extra base hits, three walks, and eight Ks over his first seven games and 32 plate appearances. Thomas, 28, played in a career-high 156 games, and posted career highs in doubles (36), homers (28), and stolen bases (20), finishing up at .268/.315/.468 and 3.0 fWAR over 682 P...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore and Nats salvage finale with Phillies, 3-2 final...

Notes and quotes from the third of three with the Phillies in D.C. GORE-GEOUS: MacKenzie Gore threw 47 of his 101 pitches and gave up 4 of 5 hits and 2 of the 3 runs he allowed in his 2024 debut in a couple long innings in the first and second, then settled in over the next four+ innings, giving up just a hit, a walk, and a run the rest of the way. Gore was a little geeked up early, got up to 98.6...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Stephen Strasburg officially retired; Nats lose 3rd in a row; 2nd straight to Phillies...

Notes and quotes from Saturday in the nation’s capital... With an update on the Nationals.com Transactions page, news of Stephen Strasburg’s official retirement became public, less than a year after a rumored ceremony ended up getting scrapped when negotiations on how exactly he’d end his career hit a snag. The status update for the now-35-year-old, 2009 No. 1 overall pick comes 667 days after the...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop another, 4-0 to Phillies; CJ Abrams starting strong this season...

Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ series opener with the Phillies in D.C. CORBIN 2024 HOME DEBUT: Patrick Corbin kept the Reds off the board through three innings in his 2024 debut on the road in Cincinnati, but he left a 1-1 fastball up in the fourth which got hit out, and gave up a three-run blast on a 2-0 sinker outside that went out to right-center in the fourth, with the two home runs acco...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray struggles again; Nats drop finale with Pirates, 7-4

Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ 7-4 loss to the Pirates in the nation’s capital... GRAY’S FIRST HOME START: “[My biggest takeaway is] getting the responsibility of being able to go out there and try to put the team in a good position from Game 1,” Josiah Gray told reporters, as quoted by MLB.com’s Jessica Camerato, after he went four innings for the Nationals on Opening Day, giving up seven r...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Lane Thomas and Nats beat Giants, 8-1 in series opener; Sean Doolittle ❤️ ...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore and Nats salvage finale with Phillies, 3-2 final...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Stephen Strasburg officially retired; Nats lose 3rd in a row; 2nd straight to Phillies...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray struggles again; Nats drop finale with Pirates, 7-4
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats’ prospects drawing rave reviews from club brass this spring...

Notes and quotes on the Next-Wave-Nationals in Spring Training this year... NEW AGE RENDONS AND ZIMS: Davey Martinez said early this spring he wanted to see the Naionals’ top prospects go out and compete this spring and fight for a spot on the big league roster. “Right now there’s an opportunity for all these guys, and I want them to come to camp and try to compete and win the job,” the manager sa...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Jake Irvin takes advice to heart; Carter Kieboom outrighted to Triple-A...

Notes and quotes from West Palm Beach, FL, where Jake Irvin shoved and Carter Kieboom was outrighted to AAA... Jake Irvin made his first two appearances in Grapefruit League action this spring out of the bullpen, piggybacking on the days he and MacKenzie Gore were scheduled to pitch. Irvin’s first start (after he’d given up 8 R, 7 ER in 3 2⁄3 innings pitched in his first two outings), was a four-i...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Roster cuts + more from Spring Training in WPB...

Notes and quotes from Spring Training... When the Washington Nationals made their first roster cuts of the Spring on Monday, 6 of 8 players optioned out to Triple-A or reassigned to minor league camp were pitchers, with Nats’ skipper Davey Martinez explaining it was time they get stretched out and prepare for the start of the regular season. Joan Adon, Cole Henry, DJ Herz, Mitchell Parker, and Amo...2024
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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 news & notes: Zach Davies’ latest opportunity; Good news on Nationals’ prospect...

Notes and quotes from the weekend that was in West Palm Beach, FL. DAVIES IN NATS’ MIX: Zach Davies, who turned 31 in early February, made 18 starts for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2023, posting a 7.00 ERA, a 4.58 FIP, 39 walks (4.26 BB/9), 72 strikeouts (7.87 K/9), and an ugly .295/.370/.461 line against in 82 1⁄3 innings pitched. Davies signed on in D.C. on February 17th, with Nationals’ manage...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore second spring start + more...

Notes and quotes on Nationals’ starter MacKenzie Gore’s second outing of the spring + more... GOREGEOUS: MacKenzie Gore struck out two batters in each of his two innings of work in his first start of the spring last Sunday, giving up a pair of singles and one run the second time up in the 26-pitch, 21-strike outing. Gore, 25, threw four-seamers for 50% of his pitches (13 of 26), averaging 95.9 MPH...2024
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"The Nationals and right-handed reliever Jacob Barnes are in agreement on a minor league contract, reports Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports."

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"Manager Dave Martinez informed reporters (including Jesse Dougherty of the Washington Post and Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports."

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"Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports."

2021
"An MRI has revealed a partial UCL tear in Joe Ross’s right elbow, per Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports."

2020
"Neither Ryan Zimmerman nor Joe Ross will suit up to play for the Nationals in 2020, according to respective reports from Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports."

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"“He has an idea what they’re trying to do to him,” Nats skipper Dusty Baker told Mark Zuckerman of MASN Sports earlier this month."

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"com's Mark Zuckerman provided another staggering stat: Strasburg indicated earlier in the week that he was rounding into form physically, so his dominant outing didn't come as a complete shock."

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""Harper had already skipped out on NatsFest, a fan festival, according to Mark Zuckerman of CSN:Harper, drafted Number 1 overall by the Nationals in 2010, can now focus solely on improving for next season."

• Washington Nationals news & notes: Lane Thomas and Nats beat Giants, 8-1 in series opener; Sean Doolittle ❤️ ...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Stephen Strasburg officially retired; Nats lose 3rd in a row; 2nd straight to Phillies...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Opening Day Josiah Gray - start of a new era…

It’s Opening Day for the Nationals, who take on the Reds in Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park at 4:10 PM ET... Josiah Gray struggled in the second half of the 2023 campaign coming off of his first All-Star appearance, with a 5.79 ERA, a 5.40 FIP, and a .252/.372/.392 line against in 37 1⁄3 IP between July 16th-August 28th, but picked things up over the last month and finished a positive run ov...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Patrick Corbin enters final year of 6-year deal in D.C.

Notes and quotes on Patrick Corbin’s final Grapefruit League start on Sunday... CORBIN WRAPS UP SPRING: Davey Martinez’s message for Patrick Corbin coming out of the left-hander’s fourth start of the spring was one he has been repeating throughout the past few seasons as the now-34-year-old starter has struggled to find his form from 2018, which earned him a 6-year/$140M contract with the National...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray and Jake Irvin on Saturday night in ST...

Notes and quotes from a split-squad Saturday in West Palm Beach... OPENING DAY GRAY: Josiah Gray’s seven-walk outing last week was not ideal, but he did manage to limit the Houston Astros to a run on five hits in five innings. Gray told reporters after the start he was aware he should not be putting himself in those situations, although he had wriggled his way out of them in the past. “I think eve...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: James Wood and Dylan Crews lift Nats; Bullpen or rotation? + more...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals from Spring Training... BULLPEN OR ROTATION?: Start No. 3 for Trevor Williams this spring began with another leadoff home run, an issue which plagued him in 2023 and has continued early in the process this year. “It’s become an unfortunate trend,” Williams acknowledged last July, as quoted by MASN’s Mark Zuckerman. “I should just give up one in the bullpen before...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats’ prospects drawing rave reviews from club brass this spring...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray & mechanics; Free agent spending for 2025 + more...

Notes and quotes after an off-day for the Nationals in West Palm Beach... OPENING GRAY: Josiah Gray’s first outing after being named the Washington Nationals’ Opening Day starter was an “interesting” one, which saw the pitcher walk seven batters, strike out six, and give up just three hits and one earned run. As the 26-year-old start acknowledged, he knows it is not in his best interest to continu...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore strike out 10 in “weird” outing; Josiah Gray Opening Day starter

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ weekend in West Palm Beach, FL... Going up against New York’s Mets last week in West Palm Beach, FL, MacKenzie Gore gave up two hits, three walks, and one earned run in 5 2⁄3 innings pitched. Gore, 25, retired nine straight to start the outing (on just 32 pitches), before a single and three walks forced in the first run. A 4-3 double play got the lefty out of th...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Trevor Williams’ third start; bullpen game + more...

Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ last two games... FRIDAY: Trevor Williams got off to a rough start in his second outing of the spring last week in West Palm Beach. Williams gave up a leadoff home run, back-to-back singles, and a three-run blast which put him and the Nationals in a 4-0 hole early in what ended up a 9-4 loss to the Astros. All four of the hits came on pitches up in the zone, a...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore and Nats salvage finale with Phillies, 3-2 final...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray struggles again; Nats drop finale with Pirates, 7-4
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• Washington Nationals Reacts Poll Results: Who’s next?

A look at Trey Lipscomb’s rise and your best guess as to which prospect will get the call next... Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Washington Nationals fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Towards the end of Spring Training, the Washington Nationals optioned...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats blow late lead, drop 2 of 3 in Cincy; Home opener today in D.C.

Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ series finale with the Reds in GABP... BLOWN SAVE: Nationals’ rookie Trey Lipscomb homered for the first time in the majors to break up a 3-3 tie in the top of the seventh inning in Washington’s series finale with Cincinnati’s Reds on Sunday afternoon in Great American Ballpark. Then Lane Thomas hit a sac fly to make it a two-run lead in the top of the eighth,...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Patrick Corbin enters final year of 6-year deal in D.C.
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Trevor Williams’ third start; bullpen game + more...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Patrick Corbin finally walked someone; Luis García tough ❤️ + more...

Notes and quotes from Monday’s game in West Palm Beach, FL... Patrick Corbin left a cutter up to Marlins’ outfielder Griffin Conine, a 2018 2nd Round pick who’s worked his way up to Triple-A in Miami’s system but hasn’t yet reached the majors, and Conine turned it around for a two-run home run in the third inning of the Nationals’ left-hander’s four-inning, 47-pitch, 37-strike start last week. Cor...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Joan Adon solid in first start of spring + more...

Notes and quotes on the Nats’ right-hander’s start against the Twins... Joan Adon made two appearances in relief early in 2023, then 10 starts down the stretch in which the Nationals’ 25-year-old right-hander put up a 6.56 ERA, a 4.65 FIP, 4.18 BB/9, 8.36 K/9, and a .294/.374/.479 line against in 46 2⁄3 innings. “Even when he was coming out of the bullpen for us earlier,” manager Davey Martinez t...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Lane Thomas and Nats beat Giants, 8-1 in series opener; Sean Doolittle ❤️ ...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore and Nats salvage finale with Phillies, 3-2 final...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats blow late lead, drop 2 of 3 in Cincy; Home opener today in D.C.
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Opening Day Josiah Gray - start of a new era…
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: James Wood and Dylan Crews lift Nats; Bullpen or rotation? + more...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats’ prospects drawing rave reviews from club brass this spring...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray & mechanics; Free agent spending for 2025 + more...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Hope Row; Jarlin Susana hitting 103; Mike Rizzo talks prospects + more...

Notes and quotes from GM Mike Rizzo’s MLB Network Radio interview this past weekend... HOPE ROW: Davey Martinez talked last week on the MLB Network about the line of lockers in the club’s Spring Training clubhouse top prospects like James Wood, Robert Hassell III, Brady House, Trey Lipscomb, Darren Baker, and Dylan Crews were occupying next to one another which is being referred to as “Hope Row” b...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore strike out 10 in “weird” outing; Josiah Gray Opening Day starter
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats’ prospects in Spring Breakout game today

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ prospects in today’s Spring Breakout game... “I think the Baby Nats are no surprise anymore,” manager Davey Martinez told MLB Network hosts Mark DeRosa and Robert Flores on Wednesday afternoon in West Palm Beach, Florida, referring, of course to the top prospects in big league Spring Training with the Nationals this year like James Wood, Robert Hassell III, Brady...2024
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• Stephen Strasburg vs. Rockies: Stats, Highlights and Twitter Reaction
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• Bryce Harper Becoming Even Better Hitter in 2016 Than Historic MVP Season
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• Marco Estrada's Clutch Game 5 Gem Gives Blue Jays Real Shot at Stealing ALCS
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• Stephen Strasburg Suffers Setback, Timetable For Return Unclear
Stephen Strasburg’s stretch of brutal injury luck continues. Manager Dave Martinez informed reporters (including Jesse Dougherty of the Washington Post and Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports.com) today the former World Series MVP recently suffered a setback in his rehab from thoracic outlet syndrome. He’s not listed on the club’s Spring Training roster, and Martinez conceded there̵...2023
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• Bryce Harper, Nationals Agree on New Contract: Latest Details and Reaction
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• Bryce Harper skipping HR Derby because of dad's injury
First, it was Giancarlo Stanton. Now, it’s Bryce Harper. The 2015 Home Run Derby will be without another of Major League Baseball’s best home run hitters after Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper said he won’t be participating. The 22-year-old outfielder told reporters Monday he made the decision because his father is recovering from a rotator cuff injury and won’t be able to pitch. “Not having...2015
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• Bryce Harper, Nelson Cruz Giving Hope for Old-Fashioned Home Run Race in 2015
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• Bryce Harper Reaches Base 7 Times vs Cubs Without Registering an Official At-Bat
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• Preseason Prep - March 12, 2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Jake Irvin & “one bad pitch”; Nats drop opener with A’s in extras, 2-1...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Lane Thomas and Nats beat Giants, 8-1 in series opener; Sean Doolittle ❤️ ...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore and Nats salvage finale with Phillies, 3-2 final...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Stephen Strasburg officially retired; Nats lose 3rd in a row; 2nd straight to Phillies...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop another, 4-0 to Phillies; CJ Abrams starting strong this season...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray struggles again; Nats drop finale with Pirates, 7-4
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Joey Gallo homers to spark Nats in 5-3 win over Pirates...

Joey Gallo homered. Trevor Williams got the first W by a Nats’ starter this season + more... NO O FOR FOR GALLO ANYMORE: Joey Gallo started off 0 for 12 at the plate this season, but the slugger broke out in a big way Wednesday night in the nation’s capital, hitting his first home run of the year for his first hit, a 447-foot blast to right-center field which sparked a four-run rally in the home-h...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats blow late lead, drop 2 of 3 in Cincy; Home opener today in D.C.
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray and Jake Irvin on Saturday night in ST...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: James Wood and Dylan Crews lift Nats; Bullpen or rotation? + more...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Grapefruit League opener today; Davey Martinez preparing for season + more...

Notes and quotes to get you ready for the start of the Grapefruit League season... NATIONALS PREPARE FOR GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE OPENER: With one day to go before the start of Grapefruit League action, Davey Martinez and his club put in work on Friday, preparing for the first game of the spring, which takes place today in West Palm Beach, FL (6:05 PM ET; Radio: nats.com; with a replay on the MLB Network...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Pitching plans for Nats’ weekend matchups; Jackson Rutledge in 2024 + more...

Notes and quotes as the Nationals prepare for the Grapefruit League opener tomorrow... PITCHING PLANS: Having announced his plan to send Patrick Corbin out to start the Grapefruit League opener on Saturday, Washington Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez provided more details about the plans for the pitching over the first weekend of games this spring. Corbin will start against the Houston Astros ...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Spring Training updates; Injury news; CF in D.C. in 2024...

Notes and quotes from the first two days of Spring Training 2024... GETTING TO KNOW YOU AND YOU AND YOU: Davey Martinez talked on Day 1 of Spring Training 2024 about watching all of the players the club assembled this year as they are reuniting, getting comfortable, or getting to know one another in West Palm Beach, FL. Returning players from 2023’s roster, those who signed on this winter, and the...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Victor Robles and CF in D.C. in 2024

Checking in on the Nationals’ 26-year-old outfielder again... Victor Robles and Washington’s Nationals avoided arbitration last winter, agreeing on a 1-year/$2.325M contract for the 2023 season, and there was a club option included in the deal for 2024, at $3.3M, but the club declined the option in November, as they announced on X/Twitter, noting, however, “... Robles [remained] under team control...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats decline 2024 club option for arb-eligible Victor Robles

Notes and quotes on an interesting roster decision... When Victor Robles and the Washington Nationals avoided arbitration last winter, agreeing on a 1 year/$2.325M contract for 2023, there was a 2024 club option in the deal, but it was declined by the Nationals on Thursday, as they announced on X/Twitter, noting, however, “... Robles remains under team control and is eligible for salary arbitratio...2023
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats decline 2023 option for arb-eligible Victor Robles

Notes and quotes on an interesting roster decision... When Victor Robles and the Washington Nationals avoided arbitration last winter, agreeing on a 1 year/$2.325M contract for 2023, there was a 2024 club option in the deal, but it was declined by the Nationals on Thursday, as they announced on X/Twitter, noting, however, “... Robles remains under team control and is eligible for salary arbitratio...2023
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• Josh Donaldson leaves game with another calf injury
Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson departed their game Monday with left calf tightness, the team announced. Jays doctors are currently evaluating Donaldson, who missed time last season with a right calf strain and was on the shelf earlier this year on account of a shoulder issue. With a playoff berth looking unlikely for Toronto and Donaldson being a free agent at season’s end, he could be a p...2018
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• MLB Top Prospect Trea Turner Could Be Extra Spark for Contending Nationals
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• 3 Potential Under-the-Radar Cincinnati Reds Free-Agent Targets
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