It took about five days, but the long-awaited reassignments of Dylan Crews, Brady House, and James Wood (oh my!) happened yesterday, along with some other reassignments and some releases. Joining the “Other Big Three” were: OF Robert Hassell C Israel Pineda LHPs Richard Bleier, Joe LaSorsa 1B Juan Yepez While some have expressed surprise at …
Still here, just waiting for the regular season to start.
Meanwhile, yesterday we got an idea as to who we probably won’t see north of Florida anytime soon (60-Day I.L. unless otherwise specified):
As noted previously, since the MLB doup d’état, transaction information seems to be flowing faster and more freely. It’s almost as if there were something else influencing these decisions.
Following today’s 9-8 win vs. the Mets, the Nats announced six more cuts to the major-league camp:
OPTIONED TO ROCHESTER
• RHP Jackson Rutledge
REASSIGNED TO MINOR-LEAGUE CAMP
• 2B/OF Darren Baker
• C Brady Lindsly
• 1B Lewin Diaz
• RHP Luis Perdomo
• RHP Robert Gsellman
The moves reduce the number of healthy players to 39—per Mark Zuckerman—with seven games left in Florida before the team heads north to play a dress rehearsal for Opening Day majors-minors exhibition on the 26th.
In between the endless prattling from the SNY broadcasters, former college coaches, sideline reporters, and the Mets front office, there was a game yesterday afternoon in which the Mets’ top prospects beat their Nationals counterparts, 4-2. As was feared/loathed in comments, the Nats trotted out seven pitchers over seven innings. Jackson Rutledge was the first …
The Nats rallied for three with two out in the 5th and held on for a 5-3 win over the Astros. There were no watchlisters in the starting lineup and, as usual, no watchlist pitchers appeared in the game. Here’s how “our guys” did coming off the bench… Trey Lipscomb subbed for CJ Abrams at …
After losing a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the 7th, the Nats responded in the top of the 8th with a double, single, and a fielder’s choice to reclaim the lead at 2-1, which the bullpen held for Washington’s fourth straight ST win. Four watchlist players were in the starting lineup and played the …
Trey Lipscomb’s two-out, two-run triple highlighted a three-run 6th as the Nats beat the Mets, 4-1 last night to extend their winning streak to three Lipscomb, who was the only watchlist player in the starting lineup, was lifted for Darren Baker in the Top of the 7th as manager pause for laughter Dave Martinez sent …
The bullpen fell apart in the late innings, but here’s the switch – it was the Cards, not the Nats, who faltered to turn a 4-1 lead into an 11-4 loss this afternoon. Jacob Young was the sole watchlister in the starting lineup as the 24-y.o. played CF and batted ninth. He went 2-for-3 with …
It might not have been pretty—four runs scored on an error and three sacrifice flies —but the Nats stopped a four-game slide with a 7-3 win over the Twins this afternoon. James Wood also broke out of a mini-slump with a single, triple, and two runs scored while starting in right field. He was the …
In the second half of the de facto doubleheader wasn’t as messy, but it wasn’t much prettier as the Marlins handed the Nats their fourth straight loss last night, 4-1. [Ed. Note – Insert graf about spring training results being meaningless. Reminder: This to be used only when things go poorly] Dylan Crews (CF), Trey …