Spring Training 2023

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tomorrow (Wednesday's) game vs the Yankees will be on ESPN at 1 PM.

[welch]

Zuckerman reports that Doolittle has temporally stopped throwing, but he has not suffered an injury.

Sean Doolittle reported for spring training at full strength, and he joined his Nationals teammates as a full participant through the first week-plus of camp. He started thinking about making the Opening Day roster, completing his recovery from surgery to repair a torn elbow ligament in near-record time.

That’s when the team’s medical staff stepped in and questioned if the veteran left-hander should be pushing himself to that extent. And after some consultation, they came to the conclusion it wasn’t worth it.

That’s why Doolittle has been ramped down for the moment. He’s not throwing a ball this week, focusing instead on strengthening exercises. He doesn’t know exactly when he’ll start ramping up again, but he insists none of this was precipitated by any kind of setback.

“Nothing specifically happened,” he said. “I think when we started to look at what it was going to take to ramp up, and where I was at, I was ahead of schedule probably by almost a month. I did have some days when I was a little more sore than I had been throwing in the offseason. Nothing bad, but we started thinking about it. We’re so far ahead, let’s slow it down a little bit.”

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/doolittle-taking-it-slow-may-not-be-ready-for-opening-day?fbclid=IwAR16uG23Mr0gktO2DjVcaKDy0FQ8B0apttIBOB4P67tltQUT6dVYxbrESNI

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Today's lineup:
1. Abrams SS
2. Call LF
3. Garcia 2B
4. Meneses 1B
5. Garrett RF
6. Vargas 3B
7. R. Adams C
8. Derek Hill CF
9. Lucious Fox DH
Corey Abbott P

The first round of substitutes are interesting:
LF: Casey
CF: JAMES FREAKING WOOD
RF: De La Rosa
3B: Alu
SS: Valera
2B: Meuija
1B: Blaneknhorn
C: Pineda
DH: Milas

[GburgNatsFan]

So he suffered what, a pre-injury? 

Zuckerman reports that Doolittle has temporally stopped throwing, but he has not suffered an injury.

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/doolittle-taking-it-slow-may-not-be-ready-for-opening-day?fbclid=IwAR16uG23Mr0gktO2DjVcaKDy0FQ8B0apttIBOB4P67tltQUT6dVYxbrESNI

[Five Banners]

So he suffered what, a pre-injury?

Natinals

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So he suffered what, a pre-injury? 

it's a new approach - treat people as if they are injured "before" they get injured.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

it's a new approach - treat people as if they are injured "before" they get injured.

training for being injured. That's a breakthrough for our medical staff, inspired by Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber.

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training for being injured. That's a breakthrough for our medical staff, inspired by Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber.

They are also working on technology that will allow for the release of game stats before the game is completed.

[Dave in Fairfax]

Yankees seem to have a regular-season line-up out there, at least for the first few innings.

[Dave in Fairfax]

ESPN can't even pretend to care about what's happening with the Nationals. Injured player? Let's cut away to interview a Yankee.

[Natsinpwc]

ESPN can't even pretend to care about what's happening with the Nationals. Injured player? Let's cut away to interview a Yankee.

Yup. Yankees are the reason the game is on espn.

[DCsOwn]

https://twitter.com/markzuckerman/status/1631004918046752778?s=46&t=0ubIVpvt5JFpdatRBqhAwg

The vid:

https://twitter.com/nats_playerdev/status/1631007813467004928?s=46&t=0ubIVpvt5JFpdatRBqhAwg

[Slateman]

Ah the bad baserunning. Like we never left

[DCsOwn]

Probably goes without saying but James Wood is ASTONISHINGLY talented. The physical gifts are up there with any player the Nats have ever had and that includes Harper. Just a long, fast, powerful kid with phenomenal bat speed.

Also, Abrams is electric man. He has a chance to be one of the most dynamic players in the sport. He’s as rangy as any shortstop in baseball full stop, he’s obviously a threat on the basepaths AND he’s a natural hitter with improving bat speed. Again, quite early but he’s hitting the ball a bit harder thus far and the bat looks quicker to my eye. He’s still a fledgling of course, but I think Rizzo got that eval right (if you remember the speculation was that Rizzo just straight up preferred Abrams to Volpe who he also liked but didn’t see star upside with).

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just tuned into the game in time to hear them talking about Strasburg never pitching again, the contract, and so on.

[Five Banners]

Ah the bad baserunning. Like we never left

Had to laugh at that one, just watching it evolve

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Jake Alu went to the Luke Voit school of uniform buttoning apparently.

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James Wood is going to dominate the MLB intramural basketball league this season.

Fooled by an inside curveball on a 2-2 count.

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Tommy Romero is much better than Seth. Nice inning.

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Epic loss. Two out two strike two run HR by the Yankees.

[Natsinpwc]

Epic loss. Two out two strike two run HR by the Yankees.

But in just 2:30.

Spring training is to get you ready for regular season losses.

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But in just 2:30.

Spring training is to get you ready for regular season losses.

Abrams was asked about the clock and larger bases. He said he no issues with the clock because he got used to it in El Paso and that he liked the larger bases (also had them in El Paso).  Seems like the recent minor leaguers will have an easier time with the pitch clock.

[Slateman]

But in just 2:30.

Spring training is to get you ready for regular season losses.

Carrillo looks awful

[hotshot]

James Wood is going to dominate the MLB intramural basketball league this season.

Fooled by an inside curveball on a 2-2 count.

His size and looping swing from the left side remind me of Darryl Strawberry.

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His size and looping swing from the left side remind me of Darryl Strawberry.

He's an inch taller so not that far off.