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Nats Chat

Josh Bell's Return Among the Recent Moves

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9574 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Al & Mark convene during the early January snow storm to discuss the roster moves that were made in late December. The Nationals recently acquired 1B Nathaniel Lowe from Texas in exchange for Robert Garcia and also signed Josh Bell. Will there be more moves to address offense for the 2025 season? Bell was previously with Washington and was part of the Juan Soto trade to San Diego in 2022. (14:50) The Nats inked a pair of pitchers in Trevor Williams & Mike Soroka. Williams returns for his 3rd season with the team and Soroka is a veteran who has battled many injuries over his career. What does it mean for DJ Herz's spot in the starting rotation? (22:00) Where does Cade Cavalli fit into this season's plans? (23:30) An update on the bullpen as there are still roster spots to be filled. (31:00) Corbin Burnes recently signed a $210M six-year deal with Arizona and many expected the total to be higher. Burnes pitched last season in Baltimore and was considered the top available free agent starting pitcher. What does it say about the starting pitching market compared to previous years? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Walters is your spot for every football game the rest of the way, whether it's the newly expanded college football playoff or the NFL postseason.

0:09.2

Walters has over 30 TVs, both inside and outside, located across the street from Nationals Park.

0:19.8

Three and two.

0:20.8

Swagon belt in deep center field.

0:23.7

Back goes trout way back, warning track, wall, looking up and gone goodbye.

0:28.6

In and out of the rock pile and bouncing back down out of the playing field.

0:33.5

Bang, zoom goes Josh Bell with his fourth home run of the year.

0:38.4

Next pitch.

0:39.4

Sway in a crowdball towards short, off the glove of Abrams, deflex out into his center field.

0:43.5

Simeon will score, and Lowe is aboard at first, and it's 4-1, Texas.

0:50.5

And welcome to Natsch, Chad, for Monday, January 6, 2025, along with Mass and Sports.com.

0:57.3

Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman. I'm Al Galdi host of the Al Galdi podcast. Good to be back with you.

1:02.2

I'd say happy New Year, but we're past the point in which Larry David says it's okay to say happy

1:06.6

New Year. So we'll just say hello and hope that you had a nice holiday season. But we are here.

1:11.9

We have actual significant Nationals moves in this offseason to discuss. We also have lingering

1:17.7

Nat's questions to discuss. You can find us on X at Nat's underscore chat. You can find us on

1:23.4

Blue Sky at Nat's Chat podcast. You can email us Nat'spodcast at gmail.com, and you can find us on our

1:31.1

website, Natschatpodcast.com. As we are recording this, the Washington, D.C. area has been

1:38.8

bludgeon by snow. Mark, are you surviving the snow so far? I'm surviving so far, Al, but we're taping this a little earlier in the day, so I have not

1:46.9

had to go out yet and actually start shoveling this.

1:50.2

You know, growing up in Arizona, we didn't have snow days, so it's still kind of cool to me,

1:54.9

but I will admit the older I get, the less excited I get about the, you know, six to eight

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