Surprising Release of Jeremy Jeffress

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Nats off day on Sunday got busy following news that reliever Jeremy Jeffress was released for unspecified "personnel reasons". Al & Mark discuss how it affects the current bullpen situation and give an update on Tanner Rainey. (13:48) The guys also evaluate how the present and future front-lines of the rotation are looking so far this Spring. Max Scherzer, Patrick Corbin, Cade Cavalli, and Jackson Rutledge have all finally taken the mound. (29:34) Last season, the Nats defense was the worst in the MLB. With Josh Bell and Kyle Schwarber now on the roster, what should we expect from Washington in the field in 2021? (36:46) Finally, Mark has another story from the Jim Bowden Era in Viera. This one, from their first ever Spring Training game in 2005, and it's can't miss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And welcome to Nats chat for Monday, March 8th, 2021, along with Nats insider Mark Zuckerman of Massensports.com.
0:10.8	I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast.
0:13.0	It is great to have you with us as we attempt for this podcast to last longer than Jeremy Jeffers' tenure with the Nationals.
0:19.5	Mark, I feel like if the life of this podcast can be longer than at least Jeffers' tenure with the nationals. Mark, I feel like if the life of this podcast
0:21.5	can be longer than at least Jeffers' time with the Nats, we're doing something right.
0:26.4	Yeah, I would hope we survive longer than that. Two weeks is all that he made it in camp,
0:31.6	and we're going to get to this. But there seems to be more of this story than we know at the
0:36.2	moment as we tape this on Sunday afternoon.
0:39.2	There's, you don't just get released two weeks in unless something happened.
0:43.6	And in this case, probably something didn't have to do with baseball.
0:47.6	Yes, Mike Rizzo said it had to do with personnel reasons, not personal reasons.
0:52.2	We'll try to decipher that coming up in just a little bit.
0:55.2	But lots of discuss on this installment of Nats chat. Very newsy last few days for the Nats.
0:59.4	In addition to the Jeffress Saga, we've got the latest in the John Lester situation.
1:04.5	That's coming up in just a moment. Max Scherzer and Patrick Corbin have made their exhibition debut.
1:09.1	Some stuff to chew on with that. The Nats Aces of the Future, we hope. Cade Cavali and Jackson Rutledge bids the other day. And a problem for the Nationals last season that we don't think has gotten nearly enough attention. The Nats defense will get to that as the show progresses. Storytime with Mark on the way today as well. You can tweet us at Nats underscore
1:29.2	chat. And in fact, before we go any further, we've got to highlight maybe the single best tweet
1:33.8	we've gotten so far. And that's saying something because we've got a lot of great tweets.
1:37.3	But Tom Mirabella tweeted us the other day, again, at Nats underscore chat of him listening
1:43.9	to this podcast in Chiba, Japan. Mark, we have
1:48.5	listenership in Japan. That's a beautiful thing. I told you, Al, Nats fandom extends around the
1:55.0	entire globe. I've heard from people from every corner in the past. It's great to know that we
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