Paul Toboni Introduced as President of Baseball Operations

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Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Nationals began a new era on Wednesday morning as Paul Toboni was officially introduced as the new President of Baseball Operations. Mark & Al react to Toboni's first time meeting with the D.C. media in the press room at the ballpark. Toboni was joined on the podium by three members of ownership in Mark Lerner, Ed Cohen, and Robert Tanenbaum. (07:00) Spending by ownership was brought up multiple times during the press conference. (15:35) Toboni's answer on if he will hire a General Manager beneath him. Mike DeBartolo was in attendance at the press conference. (21:20) Toboni's response about the young talent within the franchise. (24:00) Discussion on the managerial situation and what Toboni had to say about interim skipper Miguel Cairo. (36:45) How should Toboni handle the current staff within the Front Office? (39:05) NATS CHAT PODCAST PARTY ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 10TH AT 7PM AT WALTER'S. FIRST BEER ON THE HOUSE!

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0:00.0	Join us at Walters on Friday night, October 10th at 7 p.m. for our end-of-season Nats chat
0:06.3	podcast party. As a way to enjoy the fact that the Nats helped spoil the Met September,
0:11.2	the first beer is on the house.
0:18.4	Morning, everyone. Earlier this morning, the Washington Nationals officially announced that Paul Toboni has been named the club's president of baseball operations.
0:26.6	I'm stepping into this role with a clear vision, and that vision is to be the highest performing organization in all sports.
0:34.6	I want to help build something that becomes the envy of all of sports, right?
0:38.9	Where we get X amount of months and years down the line,
0:42.9	and people are looking at this organization like, shoot, I want to be part of that organization.
0:47.8	We have a lot of work to do.
0:49.2	That's okay.
0:50.0	We're going to embrace it.
0:53.5	And welcome to Natschat, along with Massinsports.com, Nationals Insider Mark Zuckerman.
0:58.3	I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:00.8	This is the first installment of the podcast for the Nationals 2025-2026 offseason.
1:07.0	What figures to be a busy offseason, at least in terms of the front office and managerial staff, we'll see about with players.
1:13.6	But the first big event of this offseason happened on Wednesday morning, a 9 a.m. introductory press conference for Paul Toboni as Nats president of baseball operations.
1:25.1	There was a lot to this presser, including three members of
1:29.3	Nats ownership being at the dais for the presser, managing principal owner, Mark D.
1:34.3	L. L. Cohen, and principal owner Robert K. Tannenbaum, marking the first time in years
1:42.1	that Nats' ownership took questions in a session with reporters,
1:47.4	although only Mark Lerner actually spoke. We have a good bit to unpack from this presser,
1:51.8	but we first say thank you for listening. We this Nats offseason will be doing episodes of the
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