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Washington Nationals’ minor league coach Tripp Keister can’t wait to get started

WASHINGTON – Tripp Keister was in Florida when the Nationals and the rest of Major League Baseball shut down Spring Training facilities.

“Hey, it is going to be a couple of weeks, then we will get back to work,” Keister said Tuesday, referring to his thoughts, and others, in March. “Here we are seven months later.”

Kiester said players only have so many years to play. But for coaches, “... we are still missing the game we love, being around the players, being around the game,” he said. “That is what we love to do.