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Lucas Giolito’s Double-A season comes to a close

Sep 5, 2015

Features, Minor League Baseball, Prospect Reports, Washington Nationals

Lucas Giolito's 2015 season did not start until May 8, as he spent the first month of the season working in extended Spring Training. The Washington Nationals held baseball's number one pitching prospect back f...

Austin Voth an under-the-radar prospect to watch in Nationals’ system

Joshua Sadlock

Aug 22, 2015

Features, Minor League Baseball, Prospect Reports, Washington Nationals

It's been quite the golden era of minor league pitching in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, home of the Senators, the Washington Nationals' Double-A team, the past few seasons. Stephen Strasburg and Jordan Zimmermann ...

Top prospect Lucas Giolitio settling in at the Double-A level

Joshua Sadlock

Aug 15, 2015

Features, Minor League Baseball, Prospect Reports, Washington Nationals

Four pitches deep into the game, and baseball's consensus top pitching prospect Lucas Giolito was visibly frustrated. Four straight balls to Bowie Baysox leadoff hitter Glynn Davis was not exactly how Giolito w...

Bryan Harper making a name for himself at Double-A

Joshua Sadlock

Aug 8, 2015

Features, Interviews, Minor League Baseball, Washington Nationals

"So, tell me about your brother." That is the unavoidable first question Bryan Harper, a relief pitcher in the Washington Nationals' minor league system must answer every time he sits down for an interview. ...

Ariel Miranda could be diamond in the rough for Orioles

Joshua Sadlock

Jul 26, 2015

Baltimore Orioles, Features, Minor League Baseball, Prospect Reports

When the Baltimore Orioles announced the signing of Cuban-born left-handed pitcher Ariel Miranda (no, not the star of Pretty Little Liars) in late May, there was very little information available on the 26-year...

Nationals promote top prospect Lucas Giolito to Double-A

Joshua Sadlock

Jul 25, 2015

Breaking News, National League, Washington Nationals

According to Mick Reinhard of Pennlive.com, the Washington Nationals have promoted the mostly consensus top pitching prospect in Major League Baseball, Lucas Giolito to Double-A Harrisburg. Based on his current...

Washington Nationals prospect Matt Skole back on track

Joshua Sadlock

Jul 12, 2015

Features, Interviews, Minor League Baseball, Washington Nationals

"Just a throw up the line with the runner trying to beat it out. We hit weird and my arm broke my fall. I was new to first base then, and it's something that I'm aware of now." That is Washington Nationals' in...

Nationals’ Doug Fister has efficient rehab start for Double-A Harrisburg

Joshua Sadlock

Jun 12, 2015

Headlines, Major League Baseball, National League, Washington Nationals

Tonight's minor league rehab start in Harrisburg for Washington Nationals' right-hander Doug Fister went about as well as the club and pitcher could have hoped. Fister shut out the Trenton Thunder in the Senato...

Nationals’ Prospect Joe Ross Excelling for Harrisburg Senators

Joshua Sadlock

May 24, 2015

Features, Interviews, Minor League Baseball, Prospect Reports, Washington Nationals

You could forgive Washington Nationals' fourth-ranked prospect Joe Ross for feeling a little miffed when a December trade sent him from the San Diego Padres organization to the Nationals as part of the trade th...

Help Is on the Way for Scuffling Harrisburg Senators

Dan Soderberg

May 21, 2015

Minor League Baseball

The 2015 season has not gone well for the Harrisburg Senators. The team is under .500 and near the bottom of the Eastern League standings. Prospects like Brian Goodwin and Pedro Severino have yet to get going a...

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