Nats Reportedly Pick a New Head of Baseball Ops While Wood Homers Twice in Win

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

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4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Nats won 4-3 in Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon, but the major news came from ESPN's Jeff Passan. Mark & Al spend plenty of time reacting to the report that Paul Toboni, Red Sox Asst. GM, will take over as Washington's new head of Baseball Operations. Toboni is 35 years old and has spent the last decade working in the Red Sox Front Office. (21:10) James Wood homered twice to reach the 30 home run milestone. Wood homered as many times this series (three) as he had in the past two months. Wood also did not strike out all series and remains eight Ks behind Mark Reynolds' 2009 record pace. (25:50) Josh Bell hit his 21st homer of the season in the win. It is the 5th year in which Bell surpassed the 20 homer plateau. (30:20) Andrew Alvarez lasted until the bottom of the 5th and did not allow a run. Alvarez was called up on Labor Day and had 2.31 ERA in five starts. (35:30) Jose A. Ferrer notched his 7th Save of the month and his 10th of the season. It was a rough day for the bullpen as they allowed a trio of Braves solo homers.

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0:00.0	Since the Nats won in New York on both Saturday and Sunday to decrease the Mets playoff chances,
0:06.5	Walters will treat everyone to their first beer at the Nats chat podcast party on Friday night, October 10th at 7 p.m.
0:14.9	Walters is located just across the street from the ballpark.
0:22.2	The pitch, swung on in Woods, guys, this one to center field.
0:25.5	Harris going back again, way back, looking up, going, going, and gone.
0:29.9	Goodbye.
0:31.3	Right into the waterfall over the center field fence.
0:35.1	Bang, zoom goes James Wood.
0:40.3	He reaches the 30 home run plateau his 92nd run batted into the year with home runs and consecutive at batts a multi-hober game for
0:46.7	James Wood and increases the nationals lead back to three here in the top of the eighth with
0:51.9	one out it's now Washington four and Atlanta won.
0:57.5	And welcome to Natschat, along with MadsenSports.com, Nationals insider Mark Zuckerman.
1:02.1	I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast. Wednesday, September 24th, 2025.
1:08.5	Might we look back on that day is a truly special day in National's history. It was a day on which James Wood hit two home runs in a four-three-nats win at the Atlanta Braves, ending their 10-game winning streak. And this was the day on which we had the breaking news via multiple reports that the Lerner Ownership Group has decided on Boston Red Sox Senior
1:30.0	Vice President, Assistant General Manager, Paul Toboni, as the Nats Head of Baseball Operations.
1:37.8	It is good to have you with us. This is the only Washington Nationals podcast for which
1:41.9	there is an episode for the day after every regular season,
1:45.0	Nats game day. We started in 2021. We are concluding our fifth season. We are excited to say that we
1:50.6	will be back for a six season. And we on this installment of the podcast have a lot to discuss.
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