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The Winter Meetings wrap-up today, and Nats have the Rule-5 draft and other unfinished business!
The Winter Meetings wrap-up today in San Diego with the Rule-5 draft as the finale to the 3-day event. The Washington Nationals choose first in this Rule-5 draft at 5 p.m. ET/2 PT (Live audio stream on MLB.com). Sources have told us that general manager Mike Rizzo...
Washington Nationals will pick No. 2 overall in 2023 MLB Draft…
As MLB.com writer Anthony Castrovince noted in a write-up previewing the first MLB Draft Lottery, with the new format for the 2023 MLB Draft, “[n]ot only is the team with the worst record from the previous season no longer guaranteed MLB’s top overall Draft pick the...
Previewing the 2022 Rule 5 Draft
SAN DIEGO – For the first time in three years, since the last time the Winter Meetings took place in San Diego, the Rule 5 Draft will be held in person. That’s after it was forced into being a remote event because of the pandemic in 2020 and canceled in 2021 because...
Nationals get second pick in inaugural MLB Draft Lottery
MLB Draft lottery results 2023
MLB’s inaugural Draft lottery will be broadcast live from the Winter Meetings in San Diego by MLB Network at 8:30 p.m. ET, with a live simulcast also streaming on MLB.com and in the MLB App. As in the weighted lottery systems used in professional basketball and...
The inaugural draft lottery with Nats hopes the ball bounces their way!
MLB image The Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) of 2022 changed so many aspects on the future of baseball, and it ended nearly six decades of having the team with the worst record from receiving a guarantee to pick first in the MLB draft. The old draft format...
The gut punch that many expected — happened and Rizzo/Martinez speak at the Winter Meetings, and tonight is the Draft Lottery!
PHILADELPHIA, PA — This will now be Trea Turner’s home field for a long time (Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats) SAN DIEGO — The big news yesterday happened. Free agency is the annual tango dance between players and teams. Philadelphia had Trea Turner on their dance...
MLB Winter Meetings 2022: Washington Nationals still looking for pitching, and a power bat or two…
Talking at the Winter Meetings in San Diego, CA, Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo told reporters Monday night not a lot has changed since he last spoke to the press. Rizzo & Co. in the Nationals’ front office still think they need to add a bat (or two), and a...
Dave Martinez discusses Nationals roster, offseason plans
But even after those early offseason moves, there still are several needs for the 2023 roster. “It hasn’t changed,” general manager Mike Rizzo said Monday of the Nationals’ offseason agenda. “We think starting pitching is something we’re looking for. Possibly another...
MLB Draft lottery unlike any other
Followers of the NBA or NHL are familiar with the concept of the Draft lottery that is about to debut in MLB. But baseball’s lottery includes anti-tanking measures that go beyond anything we’ve seen in the other major professional sports. MLB’s inaugural Draft lottery...
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