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Nats Chat

Season Preview: Kieboom Sent Down

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9573 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In our final installment of Spring Training episodes, Al & Mark react to the news that Carter Kieboom will not begin the season on the Opening Day Roster. What happens at 2B as Starlin Castro moves over to 3B? They explain what the chances are of Kieboom getting called back up in the near future. (16:47) The guys look at the rest of the roster with updates on pitchers Stephen Strasburg, Jon Lester, and Will Harris' injury. How is the early season rotation plan shaping up? Plus, how the 1B options have been tearing the cover off the ball this Spring. (29:17) We close with a NL East Preview. Where does Washington fit in as Atlanta goes for a fourth straight divisional crown? Are the Phillies ready to end their decade-long playoff drought? Were the Marlins a fluke last season? How much does the new Mets owner's spending matter? Al gives you his preseason prediction on how he thinks the division will shake out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Walter Sports Bar is excited to welcome Nationals fans back to the ballpark this spring, located directly across the street from Nationals Park.

0:07.2

Walters is the preeminent sports bar in Navy Yard boasting over 35 televisions, both indoors and out.

0:13.0

Walters is a great location to cast the Nats all season long.

0:16.2

Walters encourages all fans to check out coronavirus.d.c.gov to get up-to-date information on current

0:22.7

dotting restrictions. Go Nats. You know, Al, last year they couldn't have fans in the ballpark,

0:28.6

and so you lost all that energy and excitement outside the park. I'm really excited to see what

0:33.0

that looks like this year now with fans back, And there's no place better located or better situated

0:38.5

to host fans before, during, and after games than Walters.

0:45.3

And welcome to Nat's chat for Monday, March 29, 2021, along with Nats Insider, Mark Zuckerman

0:51.4

of Massensports.com. I'm Al Galdi, hosted the Al Galdi podcast.

0:55.4

This is our final show before the start of the regular season. The next time we do an

1:00.8

installment of Nats chat, our lives will be forever changed. The season will have begun.

1:05.5

Mark, will you miss discussing the happenings in Grapefruit League games? Because I sure will not.

1:10.8

No, Al. I think the only people who are more excited for the Grapefruit League to be over than

1:15.7

us are the players themselves. And you can tell that they've started to have enough,

1:20.2

especially the guys who just feel good. Yeah, they got some work to do, but right now they

1:24.3

just don't want to get hurt. That's the main thing. And get on that

1:27.5

plane and head north, they are fired up to start the season like we all are. It is time for the

1:33.5

season to begin, and it's going to be beginning very, very shortly. There is so much to do on this

1:38.9

installment of the Nats chat podcast. Massive news on Saturday, the demotion of Carter Keeboom. We'll get to that in just a moment. We'll examine what we're at with the Nats season opening roster. It is our season preview show. So we'll tell you with the Nats stand in the National League East, which of course many believe to be the best division in the majors. And we'll give you our season predictions for the Nats. We will get on record. Are you

2:01.8

prepared to get on record because this is like a court of law, man? You make your season prediction and you cannot waver once you make it. No, no, no. I'm all about it. I always published not only my own but all my colleagues' predictions on mass and sports.com on opening day. I guess you guys are going to get a little bit of a preview of that a few days

2:19.2

in advance of how I feel about this. And the most important thing that I always say we have to do

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