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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #150: February 26, 2023, 02:32:40 PM »
Victor is in mid season form.  :hysterical:

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #151: February 26, 2023, 02:33:27 PM »
And the Nats playing "Take on Me" during the 7th inning stretch.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #152: February 26, 2023, 02:37:51 PM »
I forgot all about Mason Thompson. Good to see him out there.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #153: February 26, 2023, 02:38:05 PM »
And the Nats playing "Take on Me" during the 7th inning stretch.
So cringy

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #154: February 26, 2023, 03:08:20 PM »
YadiStar comes though with a line-drive single.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #155: February 26, 2023, 03:11:16 PM »
Astros announcers think Luis Garcia is at the plate. The Nats think their hitter is Wilson Garcia. Nats win.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #156: February 26, 2023, 03:16:10 PM »
I forgot Donovan Casey was still with the org after he got DFA'd.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #157: February 27, 2023, 07:46:11 PM »
only one more off-day before OD

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #158: February 27, 2023, 07:51:08 PM »
only one more off-day before OD
I saw that AZ is playing WVU tonight. They were in town for a weekend series with the University of Arizona. Nats might want to consider lining up a college team for these open days.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #159: February 27, 2023, 08:38:33 PM »
Don’t see any tv listed for the game tomorrow. Only Cards radio broadcast. Wednesday and Friday games are on courtesy of the NY networks.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #160: February 28, 2023, 11:59:14 AM »
WASHINGTON NATIONALS vs. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS
Where: The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach
Gametime: 1:05 p.m. EST
TV: None
Radio: MLB.com (Cardinals broadcast)
Weather: Sunny, 86 degrees, wind 10 mph out to right field

NATIONALS
RF Lane Thomas
LF Corey Dickerson
3B Jeimer Candelario
1B Dominic Smith
C Keibert Ruiz
DH Matt Adams
CF Victor Robles
2B Jeter Downs
SS Leonel Valera

LHP Patrick Corbin

CARDINALS
2B Brendan Donovan
CF Tyler O’Neill
DH Paul Goldschmidt
3B Nolan Arenado
C Willson Contreras
1B Juan Yepez
RF Dylan Carlson
LF Jordan Walker
SS Jose Fermin

LHP Matthew Liberatore

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #161: February 28, 2023, 12:18:14 PM »
Has Garrett made an appearance yet?

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #162: February 28, 2023, 12:23:54 PM »
Has Garrett made an appearance yet?

He played in the first game.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #163: February 28, 2023, 01:38:01 PM »
He played in the first game.
with a lefty starter, I might have figured him in either as a DH instead of Matt Adams or in left in place of Dickerson.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #164: February 28, 2023, 01:45:32 PM »
Corbin serves up two dingers. Mid season form.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #165: February 28, 2023, 01:45:35 PM »
Corbin giving up 2 homers in 1 and two thirds.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #166: February 28, 2023, 01:46:26 PM »
Corbin serves up two dingers. Mid season form.

So he's not fixed?

Getting no-hit and Corbin getting rocked, welcome to Nationals Baseball 2023!

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #167: February 28, 2023, 01:48:29 PM »
So he's not fixed?

Getting no-hit and Corbin getting rocked, welcome to Nationals Baseball 2023!
only fix for him would be to chop off his arm and replace it with Bucky Barnes's new arm

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #168: February 28, 2023, 01:53:42 PM »
Corbin giving up 2 homers in 1 and two thirds.
Solo home runs to the top hitters. Chanelling Max. Sounds like a good start. 

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #169: February 28, 2023, 01:56:29 PM »
Sounds like a good start. 

It’s early

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #170: February 28, 2023, 02:08:25 PM »
It’s early
Just two years to go on his contract!

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #171: February 28, 2023, 02:16:16 PM »
Corbin led the NL in HRs given up in '21,Gray did the same in '22.  As long as Jim Hickey is around, feeling good about someone on the rotation keeping this streak going in '23.

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #172: February 28, 2023, 02:50:48 PM »
ROBLES GOT A HIT!!

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #173: February 28, 2023, 04:47:38 PM »
ROBLES GOT A HIT!!


T-MINUS 4 months until he gets his next one!

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Re: Spring Training 2023
« Reply #174: February 28, 2023, 06:18:24 PM »
Matt Adams...

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Indy ball allowed Adams to fall in love with game again

By Mark Zuckerman Nationals February 28, 2023, 7:00am  Comments
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. –

Matt Adams never thought he’d have to look for a job, not at this stage of his career.

Sure, the 34-year-old slugger hadn’t been a full-time big leaguer since 2019 with the Nationals, but he still managed to play in major league games for the Braves in 2020 and the Rockies in 2021, seasons that weren’t normal for reasons both personal (injuries) and on a broader scale (the pandemic).

But when the calls weren’t coming prior to the 2022 season, the small-town kid affectionately known as “Big City” decided to take the pride-swallowing step of sending out letters. He wrote to every general manager in the league, seeking a job. He got no takers.

And that’s when Adams finally came to grips with a harsh reality: His career was on the brink.

“It’s so easy to take things for granted in this game,” he said. “And I’ll be the first one to call myself out: The last couple years, I took things for granted. I thought I was always going to have a job. It was a real kick in the mouth when the phone didn’t ring, and I had to go that route.”

That route took Adams to Kansas City last summer. Not Kansas City, Mo., to play for the Royals. Kansas City, Kan., to play for the Monarchs of the independent American Association of Professional Baseball.

It’s a last resort for ballplayers who can’t find work anywhere else. The Monarchs’ roster was filled with guys who reached the upper levels of the minors but never advanced beyond that. Aside from Adams, only two other players had major league experience: Pete Kozma (whose name will send a shiver down any Nationals fan’s spine) and Gabriel Guerrero (nephew of Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero and veteran of 14 games with the Reds in 2018).

It was there, in a barebones clubhouse filled with anonymous names and in front of an average crowd of 2,106 each night, that Adams found hope again. Not because he played well, though he did, launching 27 homers with an .881 OPS in 367 plate appearances. But because the circumstances forced him to remember why wanted to be a ballplayer in the first place.

“I think that experience – along with putting all the noise aside with the business side of the game, not worrying about if I was going to have a job or not – just putting that uniform on and focusing on competing each night, I think those things tied together allowed me to have a different outlook and gain that respect back for the game,” he said. “I fell back in love with putting the uniform on, going out there and competing in this game I love so much.”

When the season ended, the Monarchs having finished with the league’s best regular season record but falling short in the postseason, Adams decided it was time to send out another round of letters. He again reached out to all 30 MLB clubs. This time, he heard back from Mike Rizzo.

The Nationals’ GM had always liked and appreciated Adams from his two seasons in D.C. Though he had lost most of his playing time to Ryan Zimmerman, Howie Kendrick and Asdrubal Cabrera late in 2019, Adams was an integral clubhouse figure during the team’s World Series run.

And when the two met in person at a season-ticket-holder event Halloween weekend, Adams made a personal pitch on his own behalf.

“This is one of the best places I’ve played in my career,” he said. “I told him if there was an opening and a chance, I would love to come back.”

“With his resume and his service time, to go to indy ball says that he desperately wants to play in the big leagues again,” Rizzo said. “That resonated with me, his hunger to play in the big leagues again. Because guys with his service time and his track record rarely go to that extreme to continue to play. I respected that greatly, his love for the game and his willingness to do whatever it took to get those at-bats last year when the traditional route didn’t work.”

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/indy-ball-allowed-adams-to-fall-in-love-with-game-again