Offseason Update: Oct. 13, 2025
Season Review: The 2025 DSL Nationals
The ’25 D-Nats finished 27-29, seven games off the pace of the DSL South but four more wins than the ’24 edition. The were below-average on offense, had slightly above-average pitching, and average defense. So, in other words, they followed the Washington Nationals minors script.
Six batters were repeating the level, with only one finishing among the Top 5 in terms of Gross Production Average, which aligns closely (but not exactly) to OPS. Likewise, six batters graduated to the FCL, which is something I’ll be tracking more closely now that repeating the DSL isn’t such a bad thing with the elimination of short-season A and advanced rookie leagues.
The pitchers were better but with six repeating the level, they were older, too: Just three pitchers were 17 or younger. Still, going from 0.63 runs above Lg. Avg. in 2024 to 0.10 below can’t entirely be attributed to that (at least I hope not). The defense was roughly the same, though the backstops were well below-average at throwing runners out (19% vs. 24%)
This year’s $64,000 question ($773,674.03 adjusted for inflation from 1955 😉 is whether or not the Nats will field a second team in 2026. They haven’t had two teams since 2008, a.k.a. the last year before the Captain Leatherpants fiasco. My gut says not this year but maybe next. But I’d love to be wrong (well, maybe not – that’d be a like six weeks of six-plus games to write up).
And now for the obligatory Top 5’s
| TOP 5 BATS | TOP 5 ARMS |
| 1. 17-y.o. Marconi German, 2B/SS .344 GPA, 8HR, 33SB, 43BB in 53G |
1. 20-y.o. Juan Reyes, LHSP 5-2, 0SV; 2.40/3.43/0.97, 7.8 K/9IP, 2.0 BB/9IP in 60IP (12GS) |
| 2. 17-y.o. Nauris De La Cruz, CF .313 GPA, 15SB, 30BB in 39G |
2. 18-y.o. Yaiker Torrelles, RHSP 2-2, 0SV; 4.38/3.67/1.46, 8.8 K/9IP, 4.4 BB/9IP in 24⅔ IP (9G, 7GS) |
| 3. 17-y.o. Brayan Cortesia, SS .288 GPA, 22SB, 25BB in 39G |
3. 20-y.o. Greyson Jimenez, RHRP 2-0, 0SV; 1.42/3.95/1.30, 5.7 K/9IP, 3.6 BB/9IP in 25⅓ IP (12G, 2GF) |
| 4. 17-y.o. Junior Castillo, 1B .252 GPA, 20BB in 31G |
4. 18-y.o. Enmanuel Carela, RHRP 0-1, 0SV; 2.08/4.73/1.19, 7.4 K/9IP, 4.2 BB/9IP, 7HBP in 27⅓ IP (14G, 4GF) |
| 5. 19-y.o. Juan Obispo, OF .247 GPA, 15SB in 34G |
5. 19-y.o. Marlon De La Cruz, RHSP 1-6, 0SV; 4.50/4.75/1.60, 9.4 K/9IP, 5.4 BB/9IP, 8HBP in 50IP (12GS) |
It’s encouraging to see so many young guys taking a walk. It’s dispiriting to see such low K/9IP nos. though it should be noted that the league average was 8.5/9IP in 2025 and has been declining steadily after jumping from 8.2 to 9.1 from 2019 to 2021.
As the italics should suggest, at a higher level this would have been a single list of perhaps six. There was quite a dropoff in GPA after the first four and Obispo was merely the most productive of the repeaters, which includes Victor Hurtado with an underwhelming .236/.359/.314 line in 46 games.
Folks interesting looking over the full team statistics can find them here, while the pitching data can be found here.
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One pitcher who had a good K/9 rate who you didn’t mention was Juan Lopez. His K/9 was 13.77, his K% 32.7, and his ERA 2.70; but for some reason his FIP was only 4.96. I would rank him above some of these others.