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Rule 5 Draft 2022 scouting reports
After a one-year hiatus created by last offseason's lockout, the Major League phase of the Rule 5 Draft returned Wednesday at the Winter Meetings in San Diego. The Nationals used the first choice on Red Sox right-hander Thad Ward, who pitched well in Double-A (2.43...
Nationals 2022 Winter Meetings wrap
SAN DIEGO -- The last time the Winter Meetings were held in person in 2019, the Nationals inked Stephen Strasburg to a record-setting contract. This year, they addressed building their future young core. After finishing the 2022 season with the worst record in the...
Rule 5 Draft results 2022
SAN DIEGO -- Tune in to a live simulcast via the stream above as Major League clubs gather on the last day of the Winter Meetings in San Diego to take part in the Rule 5 Draft. The event, being held in person for the first time in three years, gives clubs an...
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...
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