Join us at the Nats Chat Hangout at Walters on Wednesday, August 6th.

We'll get started at 5 p.m. prior to the game against the athletics.

Come share your early thoughts on the Mike de Bartolo era.

We evaluated every opportunity and, you know, we're open-minded and listening on any situation, any player.

So that's what I view my job as, you know, being open to any opportunity that gets brought before us.

And so we considered all sorts of different scenarios, but ultimately, you know, most of those that came together that made sense for us were on those guys that

were on expiring deals.

And welcome to Natschat, along with Massinsports.com, National's insider Mark Zuckerman,

I'm Al-Galdi host to the Al-Galdi podcast.

This is a special installment of Natch Chat, a-OB trade deadline special. The 2025

MLB trade deadline was on Thursday at 6 p.m. Eastern, and the Nats made three more

trades upping the team's total to five trades in the lead-up to this deadline. The Nats, in the

lead-up to this year's deadline, made five trades involving six players, five of whom

are on expiring contracts,

one of whom is not. But that one player was not starting pitcher McKenzie Gore. He still is a

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Podcast. You can email us Nat's Chat Podcast at gmail.com. We have a website you can check out Natschatpodcast.com at which you can purchase a Nats chat podcast t-shirt.

And we have another Nats chat hangout that is coming up at the home base of this podcast.

Walters, which is right near Nationals Park, Wednesday evening, August 6, hang out, talk about how you feel

about what the Nats did and did not do in the lead up to this trade deadline. So Mark, Thursday

ended up being a busy day, perhaps not as busy as it could have been, especially when

you consider that the Nads did not trade two veterans on expiring contracts, and first baseman Josh Bell

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