Ryan Zimmerman, "Mr. National", Officially Retires

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

An emergency edition of Nats Chat as Ryan Zimmerman publicly announced his retirement at age 37. Mark & Al respond to "Employee #11" ending his illustrious Washington career that began all the way back in 2005. (04:19) What will his next role be with the Nationals organization? (6:20) Perfect send-off for Zimmerman in what ended up being his final game. (10:32) What was the main reason he decided it was the right time to "hang 'em up"? (13:10) Franchise & career milestones set (19:15) Shift from 3B to 1B after injury (25:40) Playoff highlights, including 2019 (33:22) If not missing extensive time due to injury, would he have been under Hall of fame consideration? (38:51) Where would he have fit on the 2022 Nats roster? (42:02) Quick look at where the lockout currently stands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	That's chat is brought to by Walters. March Madness is just around the corner and with the Atlantic 10 and CAA championship tournaments being hosted in D.C. This year, the action will begin a little earlier. Walters is the premier location for meeting up before heading to the game or stick around and watch all of the action on the over 30 TVs available. Walters would also like to thank employee number 11 for his time with the nationals.
0:24.2	We couldn't have been represented by a more class act for the last 17 years, and we're
0:28.2	excited to see what the future holds for the Zimmerman family.
0:42.9	Ryan Zimmerman is being saluted with a standing ovation, which includes the Boston Red Sox.
0:47.8	Their entire team is out on the edge of the grass, giving Zimmerman an ovation.
0:50.3	He's saluting the crowd as he's being taken out of the game.
1:00.8	He's patting his chest, looking to all corners of nationals park davy martinez is hobbling out to greet him sim mimicking davies gates and they embrace in front of the first base side dugout
1:10.4	well the nationals didn't come out of the dugout to take the field.
1:13.4	Zim went out and he turned around.
1:14.7	He was the only one on the field.
1:20.2	And then everyone came out to applaud his teammates to hug him.
1:24.2	And welcome to Natschat for Wednesday, February 16th, 2022. This is an emergency
1:31.2	pod installment of the Natsch chat podcast. Sound your sirens. Along with Nats insider,
1:37.3	Mark Zirkerman of Massensports.com. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. Nice to be with
1:42.7	you as we come to you off major Nationals news on Tuesday
1:47.3	afternoon. Ryan Zimmerman announcing his retirement. Mr. National, Mr. Walkoff calling it a career,
1:55.4	not necessarily shocking. Although, Mark, I got to tell you, when Rob Manfred last Thursday said that the
2:02.1	Universal designated hitter now was a thing. I said to myself, geez, we haven't heard
2:07.2	anything about Zim's future. Now we have the Universal D.H. Maybe just maybe Zim's going to come back
2:12.4	for 2022, but I guess the allure of the Universal D.H only went so far, and so Zim is calling it a career.
2:19.3	Yeah.
2:19.7	You know, look, Al, as we'll get to, I'm sure here, I think there's an interesting discussion
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