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Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Baseball, Sports

4.9574 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Grapefruit League play has yet to start, but the Nats have been down in West Palm Beach for over a week. Mark (Live from Florida) & Al begin with the recent signing of veteran infielder Paul DeJong, who might end up being the team's Opening Day 3B. DeJong hit 24 homers last season while playing for both the White Sox & Royals. (14:00) Washington added right-handed relief pitcher Lucas Sims, who is coming off a down season. Sims did however have a solid 2023 season for the Reds that saw his ERA finish at 3.10. Will he part of the "A Bullpen"? (19:40) Kyle Finnegan surprisingly remains a Free Agent after being non-tended from the Nationals at the end of last season. If he stays unsigned this Spring, might he return to old his team? ****(23:20) Reaction to Mark Lerner's comments to the Washington Post, that includes explanation on the team's recent spending approach and the family's long-term plans with the franchise. (42:00) Speculating on who might be the Opening Day Starting Pitcher. MacKenzie Gore or Jake Irvin? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Walters is back for another season as the official bar of the Natschat podcast.

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Walters is the best spot to go before and after home games located at the southeast corner

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of Capitol and End Street right across the street from the ballpark.

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Two on, one out. First pitch, Deion. Swinging a line drive to left toward the line. Soto chasing. It's in for a hit. Martinez will stop at third. Soto falls down. Martinez, he throws it in from his knees. We'll hold it third. Soto slipped to him. Now the throw gets away. Suzuki backs it up and a run will score. And welcome to Nats chat for Friday, February 21st, 2025. The day before the Nats,

0:40.7

205, Grapefruit League opener, Nationals versus the Houston Astros in West Palm Beach, Florida on

0:47.5

Saturday afternoon at 105. Jake Irvin will be the Nats and starting pitcher, along with

0:52.5

Mass and Sports.com Nation's insider Mark Zuckerman,

0:55.1

who was in West Palm Beach. I'm Al Galdi, host of the Al Galdi podcast. We during that spring training are coming to you with at least one episode per week of the Natschat podcast, and it is very nice to be with you. You can email us, Natschatpodcast at gmail.com, including if you would like to sponsor the podcast, all kinds of ways in which you can do that.

1:12.6

Email the man who runs the podcast, all kinds of ways in which you can do that.

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Email the man who runs the pod, Tim Schovers, that address again, Natschatpodcast at gmail.com.

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You can find us on X at Nats underscore chat.

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You can find us on Blue Sky at Natch chat podcast.

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And we have a website that we invite you to check out Natschatpodcast.com

1:28.7

at which you can purchase a Natch Chat podcast t-shirt. We have multiple Nats signings from the last

1:33.8

few days to discuss, those of shortstop slash third baseman Paul DeYoung and reliever Lucas Sims.

1:38.8

We have more on the Nats ownership situation to discuss. As Nats managing principal owner, Mark Lerner, this week spoke, said some things that

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absolutely are worth examining.

1:48.9

Examine, we shall.

1:50.2

But, Mark, Tuesday was the day of the first full squad workout at 2025 Nat Spring

1:55.5

Training.

1:56.1

Outfielder James Wood dealing with some left quadriceps tendonitis, so there is that. And Tuesday also was the day of the first

2:02.6

circle of trust meeting at 2025 Nat Spring Training. February 2018 was when manager Davy Martinez

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