Garcia Sent Down + Cavalli Getting Called Up?

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Opening Day is under two weeks away as a Florida sun soaked Mark joins Al, who is a tad under the weather during this cold late March in the DMV. We begin with the demotion of Luis Garcia to AAA Rochester, despite him playing every day after the trade deadline last season. This leads to a discussion about Victor Robles' situation. (16:33) Lane Thomas ended last season on a very high note, but it seems Cesar Hernandez is the favorite to his lead-off this year. What do the Nats think they have in Thomas? (20:18) Cade Cavalli recently started for the Nationals in Spring Training. We continue to ask the same question we've been wondering for almost a year now..... will Cavalli get called-up to make his Big League debut in the somewhat near future? (28:01) Tyler Clippard is back in Washington after almost a decade away. Why didn't a contender scoop up the reliever once the lockout ended? (35:49) Davey Martinez has yet to officially name an Opening Day starter, but many expect the nod to go Patrick Corbin. What are the chances his 2022 can be a drastic improvement to 2021? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nats chat is brought to by Walters. Catch the rest of the NCAA tournament at Walters on the 30 plus
0:06.5	televisions available. Plan your opening day at Walters. Visit waltersDC.com and click on
0:13.6	reservations. Bright sunshine, not a cloud of the sky.
0:27.3	The temperature in the mid-70s, a perfect day for baseball at Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
0:31.2	Spring training baseball, it's the Washington Nationals. And welcome to Nats chat for Tuesday, March 29, 2022, along with Nats Insider Mark Zuckerman of Massinsports.com.
0:39.2	I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
0:42.0	We are a little more than a week away from opening day on April 7th here in the Washington, D.C. area.
0:49.1	As we tape this installment of the Nats chat podcast late Monday, It feels like we're in late December and not late
0:54.8	March. So the weather better be improving soon. Mark remains in West Palm Beach, Florida,
1:00.8	side of Nat Spring Training. So we can all be jealous of our guy, Mark. Just do not take out any
1:06.4	frustration on him. We're not going to have a Will Smith, Chris Rock like incident on this podcast,
1:13.2	right, Mark? Maybe Bryce Harper, Jonathan Papalban, but never a Will Smith, Chris Rock like incident
1:18.7	on this podcast. Am I correct in saying that? Well, you're correct in saying that because,
1:22.6	Al, I think if I attempted to do what Will Smith did, Chris Rock, it was impressive enough how he
1:27.2	held his ground.
1:28.1	I'm confident that you would not budge an inch off of anything I attempted to throw in your direction.
1:33.5	So I'm smarter than that. I'm not going to attempt anything like that.
1:37.1	I wonder if the reliever Will Smith would have had more success than the actor slash singer, Will Smith.
1:43.7	Or the catcher Will Smith. There's two of them.
1:46.7	I guess we'll never find that answer out, and that's probably a good thing.
1:50.0	Well, we have a lot to get to on the show, including maybe possibly an increased likelihood
1:55.8	of Cade Cavali pitching at the Major League level sooner rather than later, maybe even possibly making
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