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to talk some Nats baseball.

He covers the Nats for Mass and Sports is Mark Zuckerman.

Hey Mark.

Good morning, how you guys doing? Doing great. You know what? James Wood has been as good as advertised so far, huh? Yeah, I would say so. And you know, you go into these things and you try to set the bar low just in case

you know he doesn't turn out to be everything that he's supposed to be but one week into

this he has been everything he's supposed to be and it's remarkable as a

21 year old already batting third in their lineup and giving them more quality at bats

and pretty much anyone else they have out there and he's just got a great

approach he takes walks he drives the ball the opposite field it's it's been

exactly what they hoped he would be and I'm sure there at some point here is going to be a little bit of a slump, but it's just remarkable because they've had so many over the years of these guys who come in with

all this hype and for the most part they've all lived up to it and it yeah I keep

saying like it doesn't usually work this way. In their case most of these big name guys

they've called up along the way have actually proven to be really good right away

and even at a young age. So Mark lost in the euphoria of James Woods call-up is the fact that Joey Manesus had to get sent down.

He was a good human interest story from him, the fact that he didn't break into the big leagues until he was 30 years old had some good moments for the

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