With the Minor League season kicking off, here's where the Nationals’ Top 30 Prospects are projected to start:

1. Eli Willits (MLB No. 11), SS -- Fredericksburg (Single-A)
2. Travis Sykora (MLB No. 52), RHP -- Injured (Tommy John rehab)
3. Harry Ford (<a

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PHILADELPHIA -- The Nationals were one strike away from winning their first two series of a season for the first time since 2012. Instead, they finished their road trip with a disappointing loss at Citizens Bank Park that muted what seemed to be an impending celebration.

“They're pretty upset right now,”

PHILADELPHIA – The Nationals had not used an opener in years. The Rays, on the other hand, popularized the strategy.

Nationals manager Blake Butera brought his experience from his previous organization to the Nats on Tuesday against the Phillies.

With games kicking off on Thursday at both levels of A ball as well as Double-A, and Triple-A entering its second week of play, the 2026 Minor League season is now fully underway. That means we can finally see all of our favorite prospects performing on the field.

We know it’s

The White Sox have the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 Draft, which comes with an assigned value of $11,350,600, the largest since the bonus-pool era began in 2012. Yet it's the Pirates who possess the largest overall pool at $19,130,700, another record.

MLB informed the teams of the updated

This page will be updated throughout the season with all the latest Nationals injury news and transactions.

Which Minor League ballparks are worth visiting? The answer, of course, is "all of them." Minor League Baseball's 120 teams operate out of a wide variety of locales, within a wide variety of locations, and all of them offer their own unique charms. And every year, there are different reasons

PHILADELPHIA -- Foster Griffin sat calmly in the Nationals clubhouse three hours before first pitch. He looked like he was preparing for the game just like any other player in the room: locked in and focused, but not like someone who was about to appear in his first Major League

PHILADELPHIA – Nationals outfielder Joey Wiemer has done what only one player has done in the last 106 years.

CHICAGO -- One way to get acclimated to a new team is to set a franchise record in the first series of the season.

After years of grinding to establish himself on a Major League roster, that’s how outfielder Joey Wiemer has begun his tenure with the Nationals.

“It means a lot,”

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CHICAGO -- The young Nationals heard the crowd was going to be loud at Wrigley. Then they had trouble hearing one another.

In the second inning of the Nats’ 10-2 loss to the Cubs on Saturday afternoon, shortstop Nasim Nuñez and left fielder Daylen Lile collided chasing a fly

CHICAGO -- From the first day of Spring Training, the Nationals emphasized accountability as a core belief this season.

As it turns out, the first game of the season presented an opportunity for that.

“On Thursday, [CJ Abrams] crushed that ball to right field and gets thrown out at second base, of

CHICAGO -- Cade Cavalli estimates he has watched "Rookie of the Year," the 1993 baseball classic, “hundreds of times.” It was a childhood favorite for Cavalli and his brother, a film that embedded early sights and scenes of Wrigley Field into his memory.

Cavalli wrote his own narrative at the historic

CHICAGO -- Manager Blake Butera tried to swiftly dash into his office after delivering his postgame address to the team, but there was no way his energized players were going to let him slip away without a proper celebration.

“I got crushed,” Butera said with a smile.

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The Major Leaguers get to have their Opening Day fun on Wednesday and Thursday. Come Friday, it’ll be Triple-A ballplayers’ turn.

The International and Pacific Coast League regular seasons both begin on March 27 this year, meaning MLB hopefuls from coast to coast will take their first throws and hacks shortly

The Major League season kicked off Wednesday night, but for fans of prospects, the real fun begins today as Triple-A action returns with a full slate of games around the International and Pacific Coast Leagues.

Over a quarter of MLB's Top 100 prospects are starting the season at the

Kevin McGonigle (MLB No. 2), JJ Wetherholt (MLB No. 5) and Carson Benge (MLB No. 16) opened the 2026 season as Major Leaguers, along with 17 other members of MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects list. Baseball's No. 1 prospect Konnor

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Under a new front office led by president of baseball operations Paul Toboni, the Nationals have worked to build up the depth of their farm system this offseason. In doing so, they’ve built up a logjam of infield prospects at the lowest levels

In February, MLB Pipeline's experts attempted to predict which Minor Leaguers would make Opening Day rosters by assigning likelihood percentages to several Top 100 prospects.

Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo gave 100 percent chances to five different prospects, four of whom have already made their MLB debuts. They also

BALTIMORE -- For the first time since the Nationals arrived in Washington, D.C., in 2005, both the Orioles and Nats have a first-year manager to start the season.

Better yet, these two new “Battle of the Beltways” managers have known each other for a decade.