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For more information, good morning, morning Mike how are you

Good morning guys how you doing doing well so I will I think I speak from most of the gnats fan base I was

shocked when I saw the news Saturday morning. I was heading actually to

Nat's Park for the H.F. Festival as the Nats were out of town I saw the news that

CJ Abrams was designated to the to the minor lead team and I was like am I getting onion to like is it what's going on here right

but it wasn't a fake story it actually happened you option him to the minors he won't play for the

nats for the rest of the regular season why don't you tell the the audience what

led you to that decision yeah well he was option to triple a AAA like a lot of players are. It wasn't it was it was I'm just going to tell you what we've said in the in the media before is that it was not performance-based and we felt it was in the best

interest of the player and the organization to do so and and it you know it's an

internal issue that we're going to keep internal.

It's a family matter about we keeping the family.

And suffice to say, it's not the end of the world for CJ.

It's not the end of the world for the national.

It's something that happens over the course of the world for the national it's it's something that happens over

the course of time with especially with young players and and we you know we love

CJ we care for CJ we're in cast constant communication with he and his agent and we we still have a great relationship and it's something that we felt was it was needed for him and for the organization.

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