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The Kevin Sheehan Show

Best of Nationals on 106.7 The Fan/Team 980: Spring Training Begins!

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

Sports, News

4.7697 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Spring training has begun, as Nationals pitchers and catchers reported this week! We look at the early days of camp, hear from Mark Zuckerman on what he’s seeing, and check in with new skipper Blake Butera and catcher Harry Ford to get their outlooks on the season!

Transcript

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0:00.0

But with the nationals getting to work at West Palm Beach, we'll be down there next month to get to know all of some of the new faces front office coaching staff.

0:07.7

There aren't that many new faces on the playing field.

0:10.0

And here's the bad news.

0:10.8

The good news is baseball's coming back.

0:13.0

It's February 11th.

0:14.7

Spring training begins.

0:16.1

We're closing in on spring training games and opening days right around the corner.

0:19.6

And that means warmth and beer and hot dogs and baseball at Nats Park. But Danny, when you look at the projected

0:26.7

lineup for the Washington Nationals, when you look at the roster right now at the big league level,

0:31.8

they have made essentially zero moves where they have acquired major league talent this offseason.

0:39.8

Now, they would tell you Foster Griffin, the left-handed pitcher who is likely to be in their rotation,

0:44.5

who was a professional in Japan last year is a big league move.

0:49.6

They spent a few million dollars on him.

0:51.4

But he was not in the major leagues last year.

0:54.0

When you look at, it doesn't matter what part of the roster, like their projected lineup,

0:58.5

Wood, Abrams, Lyle, Cruz, Garcia, Ruiz, House, Nunez, Young, those are all guys that

1:03.8

were already here.

1:05.6

Their bench could consist of possibly Joey Weamer who was a, you know, claimed piece, but Tena and Chaparro and

1:14.3

Millis, like these are all guys that were around.

1:16.5

A rotation could be made up of Cade Cavali, Bradlord, Jake Irvin, Josiah Gray, Foster Griffin,

1:21.8

maybe Mitchell Parker, somebody like that.

1:24.3

They've spent zero money.

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