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The Washington Nationals have just tonight and tomorrow afternoon\u2019s game remaining in Florida on the Grapefruit League schedule. After Saturday\u2019s game, the Nats will fly home to the DMV to get ready for two games against Baltimore. The Nats enter this game with a 13-8 record. <\/p>\n
Manager Blake Butera has to be thinking of Opening Day which is now only six days away. There are two more position player cuts to be made, and we expect that Tres Barrera<\/a> will be one of them, and the other will be an outfielder from a pool of Dylan Crews<\/a>, Christian Franklin<\/a>, and Joey Wiemer<\/a> \u2014 and the team decided it would be Crews.<\/p>\n \u275dUltimately, it\u2019s always a hard decision, these types of moves this late in spring. One thing that we made sure Dylan was aware of is, we absolutely believe in Dylan. Our thoughts on Dylan as a person, as a player, have only changed in a positive direction. We just think the best thing for Dylan and the organization right now is at least for him to start in Triple-A. <\/p>\n Credit to Dylan, he took it like a pro. He was awesome, awesome. These are never easy [conversations], and he looked us in the eye the entire time, understood, said he was going to do everything he needed to do in Triple-A. We told him it\u2019s our job to make sure he has a clear understanding of what we need him to work on while he\u2019s there \u2014 which our hitting group is going to lay out for him tomorrow before we leave \u2014 and we\u2019re going to touch base with him basically every day while he\u2019s there, just to make sure he\u2019s continuing to hit those marks. His response was like, I understand this is tough but I\u2019m going to go do my thing and I\u2019m going to show you guys when I\u2019m ready to go.<\/p>\n \u275e<\/p>\n \u2014 Butera said<\/p>\n At this point, we only have 24 Spring Training games in the books and the one exhibition game, and no batter has more than 42 official plate appearances<\/a> on the Washington Nationals. And for that matter, no pitcher has more than 13\u2153 innings in official games.<\/p>\n Also, 68 Nationals have had at least one plate appearance with another two entering games without plate appearances for a total of 70 position players. On top of that, 54 Nats\u2019 pitchers have appeared in games.<\/p>\n The other roster battle is in the bullpen with 12 relievers remaining for just eight spots. Listed in alphabetical order, you have:<\/p>\n Clayton Beeter<\/a> Andre Granillo<\/a> Cole Henry<\/a> Brad Lord<\/a> Griff McGarry<\/a> Cionel P\u00e9rez<\/a> PJ Poulin<\/a> Orlando Ribalta<\/a> Paxton Schultz<\/a> Drew Smith<\/a> Gus Varland<\/a> Ken Waldichuk<\/a><\/p>\n Washington Nationals vs. Miami Marlins<\/p>\n Stadium:\u00a0Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium, Jupiter, Florida \n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThis entry was posted in InGame<\/a>. Bookmark the permalink<\/a>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Andrew Lang\/TalkNats The Washington Nationals have just tonight and tomorrow afternoon\u2019s game remaining in Florida on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-199812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
1st Pitch:\u00a07:10 PM EDT
TV:\u00a0N\/A
Radio:\u00a0 Marlins Radio and the MLB app<\/p>\n