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• Washington Nationals news & notes: CJ Abrams and the abrupt end of his 2024 campaign...

Notes and quotes on an up and down year for the Nationals’ shortstop... “We don’t have a specific ‘‘You have to be in at 11 o’clock’ type of thing,” GM and President of Baseball Ops in D.C. Mike Rizzo told Audacy’s The Sports Junkies when asked about a report which had shortstop CJ Abrams out all night at a casino in Chicago before a day game in Wrigley Field late this year. Rizzo’s comments came...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Jacob Young is an NL Gold Glove finalist …

Jacob Young is a finalist for the NL Gold Glove in center as Davey Martinez has been saying he should be all season... Jacob Young, Washington highlighted in their Season in Review for the 2024 campaign, “[led] all of MLB with 19 runs prevented and 21 outs above average, per Baseball Savant,” both of which, the Nationals noted, “… were the most in a season by any OF in MLB since 2019.” Young, 25, ...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Brady House takes a big step

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ 2021 1st Round pick, Brady House... MLB’s Pipeline scouts (who have the 2021 1st Round ranked No. 3 in the Nationals’ system) describe infielder Brady House in their scouting report on the 21-year-old as a, “... building [block] for the future of baseball in the capital,” along with James Wood and Dylan Crews. Kris Kline, then the Assistant GM and VP of Scouting...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Luis García, Jr. and his breakout 2024 season

Notes and quotes on Luis García, Jr.’s breakout 2024 campaign... Davey Martinez challenged Luis García, Jr. when the now-24-year-old infielder optioned out to Triple-A for a month in August/September 2023. The club’s goal with García, Jr. was getting him to develop a better routine on a daily basis. “He’s 23 years old,” Martinez told reporters when García, Jr. went to the minors. “I wanted him to...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats’ Minor League Pitcher of the Year, Travis Sykora ...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ top pitching prospect (according to MLB Pipeline’s scouts)... July 7, 2023 - ZOOM: “He was a first round guy going into the year.” This is Kris Kline talking. Kline, then Assistant GM and VP of Scouting Ops, and now a Special Assistant to GM and President of Baseball Ops Mike Rizzo, was speaking on the second night of the 2023 Draft. He’d just overseen the sel...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Cade Cavalli in 2025

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ 2020 1st Round pick, who is once again rehabbing going into the offseason... Cade Cavalli missed time with the flu and also went through a “dead arm” period as he tried to rehab from last March’s Tommy John surgery, but in the end, the setbacks kept the righty from returning to the majors this season as the Nationals and the 2020 1st Round pick felt it was too la...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Cade Cavalli in 2025
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats swept in Citi Field with 10-0 loss; finish 2-11 vs Mets...

Notes and quotes from the series finale in Citi Field ... which the Nationals lost. 2-11 vs the Mets. For shame. HERZ STORY: Following his extended break/trip to Triple-A around the All-Star break in mid-July, DJ Herz quietly put together a sustained stretch of solid starts, with a 2.76 ERA, 3.58 FIP, and over the last 10 turns and 49 innings pitched, a combined .181/.274/.299 line against. “He’s ...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats lose in extras; 3-2 on error by CJ Abrams...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ loss to the Braves in the series opener in Truist Park.. THIS: Sources: Nationals top prospect Dylan Crews is expected to be called up to make his MLB debut in DC on Monday night against the Yankees.Crews and Wood, together at Nationals Park for the first time, opposing Juan Soto and the Yankees.— Grant Paulsen (@granthpaulsen) August 23, 2024 ALSO THIS: “W...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats swept by D-backs; Looking back on 2024’s Trade Deadline + more...

Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ road trip... HEADED HOME: Washington’s Nationals took 2 of 3 from the Cardinals in St. Louis, and went into the series finale in Arizona yesterday with a chance to finish their road trip 3-3 after losses in the first two games with the D-backs. “We got a chance to go 3-3 on this road trip,” manager Davey Martinez said after a 17-0 loss on Tuesday night, “which ...2024
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• MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The dust has settled after a frenzied final few hours of trade activity. How did your team fare? The 2024 MLB Trade Deadline has come and gone. There will be waiver claims, minor signings, injury returns, and other internal promotions from this point onward, but in general, each team’s roster now features the primary players who wi...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats beat Cards, 14-3; reportedly trade Jesse Winker to Mets...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ win over the Mets and the latest deal by GM Mike Rizzo... IRVIN BACK ON TRACK?: In 20 starts before the All-Star break, Jake Irvin posted a 3.49 ERA, a 3.83 FIP, 29 walks (2.25 BB/9), 99 Ks (7.68 K/9), and a .231/.283/.395 line against in 116 innings. Irvin’s final two starts of the “first half” were rough, with the 27-year-old giving up 18 hits, five walks, and...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats no-hit by Dylan Cease; swept by Padres in D.C.

Notes and quotes on the Nationals being no-hit for the 2nd time in Washington’s franchise history (2005-present)... NO-NO IN D.C.: San Diego Padres’ starter Dylan Cease held the Washington Nationals hitless through 4 2⁄3 innings when he faced the club in Petco Park back on June 26th, before now-former-Nats’ infielder Nick Senzel singled to break up Cease’s bid for the second no-hitter in franchise...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MLB Draft talk; Hunter Harvey trade + more...

Notes and quotes on an off-day during the All-Star break... 2024 MLB DRAFT RDS. 1-3: With their first three picks of 2024’s MLB Draft (Nos. 10; 39; and 44), Washington’s Nationals selected infielder/outfielder Seaver King (10), catcher Caleb Lomavita (39), and then shortstop Luke Dickerson (44). King, 21, hit 14 doubles, three triples, and 16 home runs, with 64 RBIs, 25 walks, 11 stolen bases, and...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats swept by Mets with 9-1 loss in finale; Josiah Gray rehab assignment...

Notes and quotes after the Nationals drop three straight to the Mets... SCORE FIRST = PRESSURE: New York’s Mets, coming off a dispiriting 3-7 homestand, took three straight games from Washington’s Nationals in the nation’s capital this week, capping things off with a 9-1 win Wednesday afternoon, in the rain-delayed series finale. Davey Martinez’s ballclub fell behind early in each game, and droppe...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop finale to Mariners, 9-5, settle for 2 of 3 in series...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ series win in the three-game set against the Mariners... WILL CORBIN BOUNCE BACK?: All things considered, Patrick Corbin was on a nice run before he went up against the Twins last week in the nation’s capital. Corbin, 34, put up a 3.46 ERA, a 3.70 FIP, and not-so-great .294/.354/.480 line against in a five-start stretch between April 23rd and May 15th, but then...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: CJ Abrams in the 2024 MLB All-Star Game

Notes and quotes from the 2024 MLB All-Star Game... CJ Abrams represents. On the day he was named an All-Star for the first time, the Nationals noted in a press release, CJ Abrams led all NL shortstops, “… with a .506 slugging percentage … [and] ranked second in extra-base hits (40), OPS (.859), RBI[s] (46), and triples (5).” “Advanced metrics,” they added, “… according to Baseball-Reference.com,...2024
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Fifty-Six Reasons to Pay Attention in Spring Training
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"This is Mike Rizzo saying “not on this team."

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"The club is also reportedly close to a two-year extension with GM Mike Rizzo."

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"Nationals GM Mike Rizzo: “We Are Not Trading Juan Soto”"

2021
"It’s been less than a week since Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo spoke about how his team’s play leading up to the deadline would determine whether the front office would operate as buyers or sellers."

2020
"Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo spoke about the decision over the weekend"

2019
"Both Nats GM Mike Rizzo and agent Scott Boras (who represents both Rendon and Strasburg) told MASNsports."

2018
"Nationals GM Mike Rizzo believes he'll receive a contract extension"

2017
"Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said on Sunday that Bryce Harper has no ligament or tendon damage in his knee, but that he does have a bone bruise."

2016
"In fact, Storen was apparently spending some quality time with his wife when he got the call from Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo: TMI alert."

2015
"General manager Mike Rizzo didn't definitively say the organization would go in a different direction this time, but he did state that "experience is always helpful."

2014
"Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said that club was "disappointed" that outfielder Bryce Harper did not show up Saturday at the NatsFest fan festival."

• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats’ Minor League Pitcher of the Year, Travis Sykora ...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats finish 2024 71-91; 6-3 loss to Phillies in season finale...

Notes and quotes from Game 162 of 162 of the Nationals’ 2024 campaign... “I’ll definitely miss the knuckleheads, seeing them every day, for sure,” Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez told reporters, before Washington’s final game of the 2024 campaign, late Sunday afternoon in the nation’s capital. “When it’s over, it doesn’t really hit you until you wake up tomorrow morning when you wake up and be ...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: CJ Abrams optioned to Triple-A; MacKenzie Gore dominates in no-hit bid...

Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ 5-1 win over the Cubs in Wrigley Field on Saturday... CJ ABRAMS OPTIONED TO TRIPLE-A: Before Saturday afternoon’s game, Washington’s Nationals optioned 23-year-old shortstop CJ Abrams to Triple-A Rochester, effectively ending his season. Davey Martinez assured reporters it was an internal issue, rather than performance-related when he spoke before the third ga...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker starts in Wrigley; goes 3 for 4 + more...

Notes and quotes on Darren Baker getting to start in the majors for the first time ... in Wrigley Field. BAKER IN WRIGLEY: Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez told reporters in New York, where Washington dropped three straight to the Mets, Luis García, Jr. was dealing with a sore right wrist which he felt after a swing in the second game of the series in Citi Field. “After that last swing he took he...2024
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Nationals series preview

Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images The Cubs swept the Nats in DC in August. Can they do it again? The Cubs swept the Nationals a few weeks ago in Washington and outscored them 26-10. Unfortunately, since then the Cubs are just 6-9, and 3-6 at Wrigley Field. Here’s hoping this series ends better than the last three home sets. For more on the Nats, here’s Patrick Reddington, who runs our SB N...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats swept in Citi Field with 10-0 loss; finish 2-11 vs Mets...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Mitchell Parker goes deep; Nats score early, dry up in 6-3 loss to Marlins...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ series opening loss to the Marlins, and Mitchell Parker’s solid start... Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez spoke with reporters at length earlier this week about managing pitcher workloads as the end of the season approaches, and how they plan to handle the starting rotation down the stretch to get everyone through the end of the schedule. Of course no...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker makes MLB debut with Dusty Baker in D.C.

Notes and quotes on Darren Baker’s MLB debut ... 56-ish years after his father Dusty Baker’s... Washington’s Nationals drafted Darren Baker out of high school in 2017, but he opted to go to college at the University of California, Berkeley, then they drafted him again, taking the son of former Nationals’ skipper Dusty Baker in the 10th Round in 2021 and signing him the second time. “Obviously you’...2024
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Nationals series preview

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images The Cubs have had a great road trip so far. Can they continue this hot streak? The last time the Cubs played in Washington was May 4, 2023. That’s 484 days ago. In that game — and trust me, you do not want to click on that boxscore link — Trey Mancini, Nelson Velázquez and Brad Boxberger played for the Cubs. Seems like more than 484 days ago that those...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats and Cubs play three in D.C.; Mike Rizzo and Davey Martinez on young club...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ series win over the Yankees this week ... TAKING 2 OF 3 NOT NOTHING: With the debut of 2023 1st Round pick (No. 2 overall) Dylan Crews this week, another piece of the core of the next competitive Nationals’ roster is in the majors, playing and learning alongside several other highly-regarded, young prospects Washington has assembled since kicking off their organi...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats shut out for 3rd straight game; CJ Abrams down in West Palm...

Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ second loss to the Royals... RIZZO ON ABRAMS/ABRAMS IN WPB: If you were out there hoping GM and President of Baseball Operations Mike Rizzo might shed some more light on what actually led to CJ Abrams’ surprising demotion to Triple-A (actually West Palm Beach, FL) during the Nationals’ stop in Chicago, IL, you are going to disappointed with his answers from Wed...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: CJ Abrams optioned to Triple-A; MacKenzie Gore dominates in no-hit bid...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Mitchell Parker goes deep; Nats score early, dry up in 6-3 loss to Marlins...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop opener with Phillies; Mitchell Parker rocked in CBP...

Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ series opener with the Phillies in Citizens Bank Park... LIMIT MISTAKES; MAKE GOOD PITCHES; NOT GIVE MORE THAN 27 OUTS: Coming off a split of their two-game set with the Baltimore Orioles (72-50) in Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and going up against the Philadelphia Phillies (70-50) in Citizens Bank Park, Davey Martinez knew his club would have to play a clean g...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop sloppy finale with Giants in extras, 9-5; Luis García, Jr.’s big hit + more...

Notes and quotes from the series finale with the Giants in Nationals Park... SLOPPY FIELD; SLOPPY LOSS: Trailing 5-2 in the bottom of the ninth inning on a rainy afternoon in the nation’s capital, and having endured two lengthy rain delays in spite of the fact that the Washington’s Nationals and San Francisco Giants’ series finale started earlier than planned in an attempt to avoid an expected sto...2024
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• MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats and Cards play one more today; CJ Abrams an All-Star + Brady House update...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ big Sunday news... HERZ’S SUNDAY: “He’s really come a long way,” Nationals’ GM and President of Baseball Ops Mike Rizzo told The Spots Junkies this past Wednesday of the growth he’s seen from DJ Herz since he was acquired from the Chicago Cubs in the Jeimer Candelario trade at the deadline in 2023 “Our development people have done a great job with him. This was a...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Big 7-run 4th lifts Nats, 8-5, for 3 of 4 from Braves in D.C.

Notes and quotes from the series finale with the Braves... “Got the first one out the way,” 23-year-old lefty DJ Herz told reporters, after four innings of work against New York’s Mets in his MLB debut, “and move on to the next and keep going.” Herz gave up seven hits, two walks, and four earned runs, with two runs scoring on a home run in the fourth, and the other two crossing the plate after he ...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats swept by Mets with 9-1 loss in finale; Josiah Gray rehab assignment...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop series opener to Guardians, 7-1 + starter talk...

Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ 7-1 loss to the Guardians in Cleveland... PITCHING, PITCHING, PITCHING ... AND DEFENSE: Washington’s pitching staff, starters and relievers combined, finished the four-game series in Atlanta with the 11th best ERA in the majors (3.83) and the fourth-best FIP (3.58). Nationals’ starters’ 3.93 ERA was ranked 14th out of 30, with their 3.55 FIP ranked 6th. The re...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: CJ Abrams and the abrupt end of his 2024 campaign...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats finish 2024 71-91; 6-3 loss to Phillies in season finale...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats shut out for 3rd straight game; CJ Abrams down in West Palm...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop 3 of 4 to Cubs with 5-0 loss, 6 of 7 on final road trip of 2024...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ wrapping up the road schedule for 2024, and hopefully finishing strong at home this week... Davey Martinez’s club was 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position and seven left on base in their 5-0 loss to the Cubs in Chicago’s Wrigley Field on Sunday afternoon, their third loss in four games on the final road stop of the season. Washington’s Nationals wrapped up th...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: CJ Abrams optioned to Triple-A; MacKenzie Gore dominates in no-hit bid...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker starts in Wrigley; goes 3 for 4 + more...
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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Nationals series preview
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats swept in Citi Field with 10-0 loss; finish 2-11 vs Mets...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker makes MLB debut with Dusty Baker in D.C.
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Dylan Crews makes MLB debut in Nats’ 5-2 loss to New York Yankees...

Dylan Crews made his MLB debut last night in a 5-2 loss for the Nationals in the first of three with the NY Yankees in D.C. “Dylan [Crews] is a really good player, good tools, great make-up kid,” Kris Kline, then the Nationals’ Assistant GM and VP of Scouting Ops and current Special Assistant to GM and President of Baseball Ops Mike Rizzo, told reporters after Washington picked Crews No. 2 overall...2024
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• Cal Ripken Jr. Expresses Interest in Managing the Washington Nationals
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• Drew Storen Says He Was Doing 'Netflix & Chill' When He Found out He Was Traded
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• Jonathan Papelbon Suspended by Nationals: Latest Details, Comments, Reaction
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• Harper no-shows fan event; Nats 'disappointed'
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• Dusty Baker to Nationals: Latest Contract Details, Comments and Reaction
2015

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• Breakout Mets Clinch Division, Put Bickering Nationals out of Misery
2015

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• Nats Receiving Strong Interest In Trea Turner
It’s been less than a week since Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo spoke about how his team’s play leading up to the deadline would determine whether the front office would operate as buyers or sellers. The Nats have gone 1-4 since those comments, including a loss to the last-place Marlins and a three-game sweep at…...2021
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• Nats GM: Harper has bruise, no ligament damage
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• Adam Eaton for Lucas Giolito 'Wow' Trade Could Come Back to Haunt Nationals
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• Why Max Scherzer Will Become Even More Dominant in Return to NL
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: CJ Abrams and the abrupt end of his 2024 campaign...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Brady House takes a big step
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Luis García, Jr. and his breakout 2024 season
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats’ Minor League Pitcher of the Year, Travis Sykora ...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Cade Cavalli in 2025
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Dylan Crews - Small Sample Size assessment...

Davey Martinez liked what he saw from Dylan Crews while the 22-year-old outfielder was in the majors... Dylan Crews, the No. 2 pick in the 2023 MLB Draft, made his debut on August 28th, so any discussion of his numbers requires acknowledging the small sample size we are dealing with, but… In the leadoff spot in the lineup, while CJ Abrams was either struggling, out of the lineup, or in West Palm B...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats finish 2024 71-91; 6-3 loss to Phillies in season finale...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats drop 3 of 4 to Cubs with 5-0 loss, 6 of 7 on final road trip of 2024...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: CJ Abrams optioned to Triple-A; MacKenzie Gore dominates in no-hit bid...
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• Nationals 5, Cubs 1: Almost Gored

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Nats lefthander MacKenzie Gore took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before it was broken up. Kyle Hendricks deserved better. This was his penultimate start at Wrigley Field as a Cub — presuming he’s not back next year, and I don’t think he will be — and for five-plus innings, Kyle threw pretty well, allowing just a single run in the second. Then he ...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats swept in Citi Field with 10-0 loss; finish 2-11 vs Mets...
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: MacKenzie Gore with one to build on; Kyle Finnegan stays + more...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ lefty and the club’s closer... A START TO BUILD ON: MacKenzie Gore did give up a total of eight hits and three runs (all of them earned) in 5 1⁄3 innings on the mound Wednesday afternoon in Arizona, and he didn’t get a lot of swings and misses (7), or Ks (1), but he walked just one batter during his 98-pitch appearance, which, all together, was an improvement ove...2024
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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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• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. White Sox series preview
Photo by John Adams/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The first two games of this year’s Crosstown Classic are Tuesday and Wednesday. Hey, both these teams were supposed to contend this year, the White Sox more so than the Cubs, or so it was said when this season began. It hasn’t worked out that way for the Sox, no siree, not at all, and the Cubs lurk around the edges of contention. For mor...2023
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• South Side Sox Summary: Week 17
The bad just got worse, way worse Welcome to the SSS Summary — a little review of what happened this past week in Chicago White Sox baseball, including on-the-field play, the front office jibber-jabber, and everything in-between. Even if you don’t want to remember what happened, sorry, we will tell you anyway. If there was any remaining hope about whether or not this team could salvage the season...2023
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• Nats GM: Important to stress Astros 'cheated'
Nationals GM Mike Rizzo said it pains him that the Astros' sign-stealing scandal has put "a black cloud over the sport I love," and said that it's important to him that the league stresses that Houston "cheated."...2020
• Will Bryce Harper be traded? GM says no
After 12 hours of speculation that Bryce Harper might be on the move in advance of today's non-waiver Trade Deadline at 4 p.m. ET, Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo made it clear that won't be the case, telling MLB.com's Jamal Collier in no uncertain terms that Harper will not be traded today....2018
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