WASHINGTON – It’s nearly two years in the making – dozens of prospects in the Nationals’ farm system will play in a real professional game for the first time in months on Tuesday.
The minor league season – a victim of the pandemic in 2020 – will begin across the United States although Major League Baseball cut nearly 40 affiliates since the 2019 season ended.
“At the end of the day, it was such a grind for them to not have a season,” Washington’s assistant general manager, player development, Mark Scialabba told Federal Baseball last week from West Palm Beach, FL.