JUPITER, Fla. – The 0.55 spring ERA, to be sure, is really nice. So is the 0.918 WHIP. It would be hard for Josiah Gray and the Nationals to look at those numbers as camp wraps up and not be pleased. The spring stats that really stood out to Gray, though, were the two that showed dramatic improvement from his 2022 season. “Walks,” he said. “I think

The Orioles have made the following roster moves: Optioned RHP Yennier Canó, LHP DL Hall, and RHP Spenser Watkins to minor league camp. The Orioles’ Spring Training roster currently has 41 players (31+10 NRI).

SARASOTA, Fla. – Kyle Bradish can take his seat in the waiting room. Grayson Rodriguez made his final spring start Thursday afternoon and allowed five runs in four innings. Tyler Wells pitched last night in Bradenton and held the Pirates to an unearned run and two hits through the fifth. Bradish faced the Phillies today in Sarasota and rationed the

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Matt Adams is going to fly home with the Nationals tonight, play in Tuesday’s exhibition finale against the Yankees and attend the team’s annual charity gala that evening. And then, if he doesn’t get a big league offer from another organization, the veteran slugger will report to Triple-A Rochester and hope he gets called up

SARASOTA, Fla. – Mychal Givens threw 10 pitches this morning in his simulated game on the stadium mound, walked away from it gingerly and fired his glove against the railing as he neared the dugout. He shouted in frustration, the pat on his shoulder seconds earlier from head athletic trainer Brian Ebel unable to comfort him. Givens experienced more

JUPITER, Fla. – And so we have reached the end of the road, the final game of spring training. The Nationals, for those who care about such things, have actually fared pretty well down here, going 12-11-2 in official Grapefruit League play. A win today over the Marlins would secure a winning spring record, if that’s worth anything. Josiah Gray gets

SARASOTA, Fla. – A younger version of James McCann would have tried to push through the soreness in his oblique. Proceed without caution. But he’s a veteran in 2023 and he knows better. McCann hasn’t played since Monday in Clearwater due to the discomfort in his left side, which he noticed while swinging at a pitch. He went on the injured list last

With Thursday's Opening Day coming fast on, it’s time for the last edition of a few questions for another offseason time period. If the offseason can even be defined as actually the time period from the last game of one year to the first of the next. It’s probably not and that could make a good question, but we have better ones today. So here we go

SARASOTA, Fla. – The risk of writing about the players left in a spring training camp is that cuts could be made before one types the final sentences. They happen before first pitch, they happen while the media is stuck in traffic leaving Clearwater or Dunedin. They can be shortly after the last out or more than an hour after the bus pulled out of

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – All of the decisions, for the most part, have already been made. There’s not much-left anyone can do to make or break his chances of making the Opening Day roster. So consider tonight’s penultimate Grapefruit League game – a 6-1 loss to the Astros – a true exhibition, one in which the only real goal was to play nine innings,