Winter Meetings Recap

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The new era of Nationals leadership just completed their first time representing the franchise at the annual MLB Winter Meetings. Mark (After returning from Orlando) & Al begin with the results of the Draft, where they were not allowed to end up with a top 10 pick. The Nationals had the ping pong balls bounce their way initially, but due to the leagues rules they will settle for #11 overall. (06:00) Evaluating the chances that MacKenzie Gore and/or CJ Abrams get traded this off-season. (15:00) Parsing through Toboni's recent note to fans that could be interpreted as a heads-up that we are headed towards a new rebuild. (19:10) Handicapping the catcher situation now after the trade with Seattle. Harry Ford is one of the top rated catching prospects and Keibert Ruiz still has many years left on his extension. (27:30) Why did Washington trade away Jose A. Ferrer? (30:15) A check at the new technology that Toboni has added to the infrastructure of the organization. (36:10) Jake Irvin, Riley Adams & Luis Garcia Jr. were among those were tendered by the team to return in 2026. (40:00) Would Abrams move to 2B if he is not traded?

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0:00.0	If you're visiting Winter Wonderfest at Nationals Park this month, make Walter's Sports Bar your spot for dinner before or after.
0:08.4	Walters is located across the street from Nationals Park and opens at 11 a.m.
0:16.5	At number two, the team with the second overall pick in the upcoming MLB draft, the Tampa Bay
0:23.9	race, which means the number one pick in the upcoming MLB draft goes to the Chicago
0:33.2	White Sox.
0:34.9	The White Sox will land the top pick.
0:39.7	And welcome to Natchchat, along with Mass and Sports.com National's Insider, Mark Zuckerman.
0:44.5	I'm Al-Galdi host of the Al-Galdi podcast. We say, happy holidays. We say welcome to a post-winter
0:50.2	meetings installment of this podcast. We just had MLB's 2025 winter meetings, which took
0:55.1	place in Orlando, Florida this past Sunday through Wednesday, a whole lot of talk about the
0:59.9	Nats potentially trading starting pitcher McKenzie Gore and or shortstop C.J. Abrams, no trade
1:06.0	or trades with those guys, not yet anyway. Although we this past Saturday evening had a significant trade by the Nants.
1:13.0	We'll get to that shortly.
1:14.6	We're doing episodes of this podcast, this Nats offseason, as news warrants.
1:18.5	It is great to have you with us.
1:20.0	Nat's president of baseball operations, Paul Toboni, he spoke to reporters at the
1:24.1	winter meetings.
1:24.7	Nats manager, Blake Butera, he spoke to reporters at the winter meetings. Mark was there, Blake Butera. He spoke to reporters at the
1:28.1	winter meetings. So Mark was there. Lots to get into off what Toboni and Boutera had to say. But the
1:33.9	craziest Nats item from the winter meetings, at least to me, I'm guessing to many of you,
1:39.0	was what happened with the MLB draft lottery. We on Tuesday evening at the winter meetings
1:43.7	had the draft lottery for the 2026 MLB draft.
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