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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 go down and work on some things, especially more consistency out of him in his...
Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ left-hander’s breakout campaign...
Signed as a free agent out of Venezuela in 2017, Jose A. Ferrer debuted in the majors in 2023, and this past season, the 23-year-old left-hander stepped up as part of the major league bullpen and worked his way into high-leverage innings by the end of his second campaign with the Nationals.
A left lat strain suffered in Spring Training kept Ferrer out until mid-July, but once he was back, he impressed.
“I thought...
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 selection of right-handed pitcher Travis Sykora, in the 3rd Round of the draft, with the...
Davey Martinez had a lot to say about the current state of and the future of the Nationals’ organization...
The roster he finished the season with was drastically different than the roster he started the season with, and manager Davey Martinez talked before the Nationals’ 2024 finale about what he thought were the biggest developments for the club from another (re)building year in Washington, D.C.
“The biggest thing is obviously our young pitching,” Martinez said of the continued...
Notes and quotes on Jake Irvin before and after the All-Star break…
In 20 starts prior to the All-Star break this season, Jake Irvin posted a (7-8) record, a 3.49 ERA, a 3.86 FIP, 29 walks (2.25 BB/9), 99 Ks (7.68 K/9), and a .231/.283/.395 line against in 116 innings pitched.
In the so-called “second-half” of 2024, Irvin, 27, went (3-6) in 13 outings with a 5.90 ERA, a 5.30 FIP, 23 walks (2.89 BB/9), 57 Ks (7.16 K/9), and a .264/.322/.480 line against in 71 2?3 IP.
Jake Irvin's 2Ks...
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 late by the time he’d built back up.
“We just ran out of time this season,” Cavalli...
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 Beach, after a real abrupt end to his season, Crews put up a .145/.213/.261 line in 75 plate...
For fans looking for the light at the end of the mediocrity tunnel, here are three big reasons the team is actually ahead of schedule in its rebuild.
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 like, ‘Okay, now what?’”“You spend all year with these guys,”...
Kyle Schwarber and Weston Wilson each drove in two runs as the Philadelphia Phillies wrapped up their regular season with a 6-3 road victory over the Washington Nationals on Sunday.
Notes and quotes on MacKenzie Gore’s final start of the 2024 campaign...
In his final inning of work in 2024, MacKenzie Gore struck out the side. Kyle Schwarber, Trea Turner, and Bryce Harper went down swinging in a 19-pitch frame against the Phillies which left Gore at 91 pitches total total, with nine Ks from 21 batters faced in six scoreless at home in Nationals Park.
“Striking out the side is always fun, especially when they’re really good hitters like they are,” the 25-year-old...
James Wood homered and tripled and scored two runs and Joey Gallo hit a three-run homer to highlight a four-run eighth inning to lead the host Washington Nationals to a 6-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday afternoon.
The Philadelphia Phillies need two wins and some help to secure the No. 1 seed in the National League playoffs. On Saturday afternoon, the Phillies hope to rebound from a lackluster performance when they continue their three-game road set with the Washington Nationals.
Notes and quotes on Stone Garrett’s big game against the Phillies last night in Nationals Park...
Stone Garrett suffered a broken left fibula and a torn ligament in his ankle on a play at the wall in Yankee Stadium late in August of 2023, but he was back on the field this past spring. He’d worked hard over the winter to have a shot at picking up where he left off before the injury.
“He’s worked really hard,” Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez told reporters after Garrett got the...
Stone Garrett made an emphatic return to the major leagues, driving in three runs while finishing a triple shy of the cycle as the Washington Nationals pounded the visiting Philadelphia Phillies 9-1 on Friday.
The Washington Nationals will wear their cherry blossom uniforms for the last time over the weekend. Per MASN's Mark Zuckerman, MLB and Nike planned for teams…
The Washington Nationals announced their 2024 end-of-year awards as chosen by the local media. Infielder Luis García Jr. was named Player of the Year, closer Kyle Finnegan was named Pitcher of the Year, and outfielder Jacob Young was named Good Guy of the Year.
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Your home of the world-famous Washington Nationals GameThreads, brought to you since 2007 under the current management here at FBB...
Hello. We’re back again for more Washington Nationals baseball. YESSSSSSS!!!!!! And as we did last season, and the year before, we are going to set up one GameThread for the entire 2023 2024 season and we’re going to be leaving it up all summer, so you will know where to go when you want to talk to your fellow Nats...
Notes and quotes on Patrick Corbin’s time in the nation’s capital...
“We don’t win the World Series without him, honestly,” Davey Martinez told reporters when he was asked last month to assess Patrick Corbin’s performance over the course of his six-year/$140M deal with the Nationals (2019-2024).
“He’s the reason why we’ve got that trophy in the Champion’s club.” - Davey Martinez on Patrick CorbinIn the first year of his deal, Corbin did his part to help bring a World...
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 Wednesday’s visit with Audacy’s The Sports Junkies.
While Rizzo addressed the tough...