Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post is one of the sharpest minds in the baseball writing world, so it was a pleasure to be able to chat with her. She covered the Nationals from 2014-2018 for Post before going on some adventures that eventually led her back to the Post as a National MLB writer.
Janes has always had a special place in her heart for the game of baseball. She told me that she loved baseball growing up and played Softball all the way through college at Yale. Like many other writers, she knew this is what she wanted to do, saying, “I knew I wanted to write because that seemed like the only skill I had”.