Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo talked over the weekend about the team’s goals with their Alternate Training Site in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and how they attempted to use the facility built for their High-A affiliate to keep some of their prospects progressing instead of just sitting home with the minor league season wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We thought it was vital to get some of our good prospects down there so they didn’t have kind of a wasted 3⁄4 of a season with no minor league baseball,” Rizzo explained.
With two weeks left in the 60-game MLB season, however, there is the question of what to do next, since the recent reporting is that the Instructional and the Arizona Fall Leagues are expected to be canceled as well.