Quiet Final Day of the Trade Deadline

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Nats did not make any more deadlines on the final day of the MLB Trade Deadline leading up to their 6-4 loss at the hands of the visiting Brewers. Mark & Al examine why Washington did make any additional swaps and what went into the decision to retain Lane Thomas and Kyle Finnegan. (09:30) As for the actual game; Josiah Gray had a disappointing outing where he exited after 3.2 IP. It was the top of the 4th that did in Gray as he allowed 4 runs and tossed 37 pitches in that frame alone. This was his shortest outing of the season. (18:45) The offense had a mildly productive evening as Dominic Smith and CJ Abrams each had a pair of hits. Jake Alu, 24th rounder from 2019, came through with his 1st career RBI after getting called up from Rochester. It is expected that Alu will get plenty of opportunity at 3B after Jeimer Candelario was traded away. (27:15) Now that August has arrived, it puts into focus that both Davey Martinez and Mike Rizzo are not under contract for next season. Will they both be back in 2024? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Walters is open for every U.S. Women's World Cup match, including this Sunday morning's 5 a.m. start.
0:10.0	We put a pretty aggressive price on Lane, and, you know, it was something we had several conversations with teams early on in a day, and, you know, none of them came through fruition. And then again, there was a lot of action on Finnegan, and again, didn't meet and you know none of them came through fruition and
0:21.6	and then again there was a lot of action on finnigan and again didn't meet you know
0:24.9	none of them met the the bar that we that we put on him and you know those those are
0:31.1	two guys that we feel very very good about we're very high on both of them
0:35.6	they're good players but but more importantly, they're
0:39.3	great guys in a clubhouse. They're leaders in the clubhouse. They both become leaders in the
0:42.3	clubhouse. They've both helped a lot of those guys in the bullpen. And when you're building a young
0:47.0	foundation like we are here, you've got to sprinkle in some good veteran players, and those two guys are two good players.
0:55.8	Wayne's a good young veteran player that's just coming into his own,
0:59.7	and we felt that it never reached the bar that we set for each player.
1:06.4	Three balls, two strikes.
1:08.6	Gray to the plate.
1:10.2	Swinging a line drive, right field, base hit.
1:12.2	Coming into score Monasterio, Terang trying to score.
1:15.3	Thomas' throw on two hops is offline.
1:17.8	Milwaukee leads five to three.
1:20.3	Two runs single for Joey Weimer on the 10th pitch of the at bat.
1:24.0	And Gray has surrendered four runs here on the top of the fourth.
1:27.6	And welcome to that chat for Wednesday, August 2nd, 2020, along with MadisonSports.com,
1:33.6	National's Insider Mark Zuckerman. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:38.1	So this day of August 2nd, 2020, is the one-year anniversary of the Nats trading outfielder
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