Discussing Jacob Young & Harry Ford as Opening Day is Later This Month

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Nats will be in Wrigley Field in under three weeks, but before then the sport is focused on Spring Training & the World Baseball Classic. Al & Mark begin with looking at how the new Front Office has made its impact on the club while down in Florida thus far. (09:00) Jacob Young is dealing with a wrist contusion and has been out of the lineup for an extended time. (22:20) Harry Ford, the catcher who the Nationals acquired from Seattle in exchange for Jose A. Ferrer, is playing for Great Britain in the WBC. Ford is expected to play a lot in Washington this season, but will any highly rated prospect join him in the Bigs? (34:30) Initial thoughts on Foster Griffin, who will likely be in the starting rotation. **Audio courtesy of 106.7 The Fan

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0:00.0	Walters is back for another season as the official bar of the Natschat podcast.
0:04.8	They've been with us since our very first season on air in 2021.
0:09.1	Walters is located just across the street from the ballpark.
0:16.0	Johanowitz delivers. Swing and a long drive by Young.
0:18.8	Deep left field. This is way back.
0:23.0	Ward looking up, and this ball is gone.
0:23.5	Goodbye.
0:26.5	Bang.
0:27.9	Zoom.
0:31.0	Goes Jacob Young, able to turn on one.
0:38.1	And welcome to Natch Chat, along with Washington Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman of NatchJournal.com.
0:40.3	I'm Al Galdi host of the Al Galdi podcast.
0:45.4	We now are less than three weeks away from 2006 opening day.
0:50.4	Thursday, March 26th, this opening day, we on that day have the Nats at the Chicago Cubs at 220 p.m. in game one of a three-game series.
0:53.4	So the Nats on this most recent Thursday, March 5th, improved a six, three, and three in this exhibition season with a 7-4 win over the New York Mets. A lot to get to on this installment in Nats chat. What is the only Nats podcast for which there is a new episode for the morning after every Nats regular season game day, weekday, weekend, does not matter.
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