Notes and quotes as the Nationals prepare for the Grapefruit League opener tomorrow... 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.
Notes and quotes to get you through a long offseason... Of the ten players who made their MLB debuts for Washington in 2023, tying the Nationals’ franchise record from the 2015 campaign, six of them were pitchers.
Notes and quotes on the Nationals’ 2023 campaign... Both GM and President of Baseball Operations Mike Rizzo and the Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez talked in advance of 2019 first round pick Jackson Rutledge’s big league debut this past season about the right-hander’s rise through the organizational ranks.
Notes and quotes on Jackson Rutledge, the 2019 1st Round pick who made his MLB debut this season... “He’s a big angle guy, so he’s a 6’7’’ guy who comes
Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ offseason, which officially started on Monday... or Sunday afternoon, we guess... “These guys, they had such a good
Notes and quotes from the final Sunday in Nationals Park this season... Going into the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader in D.C., Washington Nationals’
Jacob Young drove in two runs and Jackson Rutledge earned his first career victory as the Washington Nationals defeated the visiting Atlanta Braves 3-2 in the opening game of a doubleheader Sunday afternoon.
Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ one-run win over the White Sox... “It was pretty much spot-on to what I was expecting, to be honest,” 2019 1st Round pick Jackson Rutledge said of his debut in the majors last week in PNC Park.
Nationals right-handed pitcher Jackson Rutledge will never forget his MLB debut, and it won’t be because of the seven runs he gave up in just over three
Notes and quotes from a big day for the Nationals’ front office and organization as a whole... Mike Rizzo was clear throughout the process he believed a new deal would get done in due time, and though it took a little longer than expected, the President of Baseball Ops and GM in D.C.
Rutledge will start Wednesday against the Pirates
Halfway through the four-game series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the visiting Washington Nationals, the set has a feel of some sort of showdown.
Rutledge, 24, was Washington’s first-round draftee back in 2019. A Texas junior college product, the 6-foot-8 righty has appeared among the Nats’ top 10 prospects at Baseball America entering each of the last four seasons.
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