MLB | RMNB

Nationals honor Tom Brady as he was the last active draft pick in Expos history before retiring from NFL

Legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady announced his retirement from professional football on Wednesday after a 23-year career. He retires as a winner of seven Super Bowls, a five-time Super Bowl MVP, and the NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards (89,214) and touchdowns (649).

Before all of the football fame, Brady was a multi-sport athlete playing both football and baseball at Junipero Serra High School in California. The then 18-year-old future Patriot and Buccaneer was good enough with a bat and glove to be drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 18th round of the 1995 MLB Draft.

With his 2023 retirement, Brady will go down as the last active professional athlete to be drafted by Montreal. The Expos moved to Washington, DC and became the Nationals in 2005.

(more…)

By Chris Cerullo 2 months ago

0 Comment

Washington Nationals World Series champion belts will be available for purchase in 2022 after WWE and MLB announce partnership

Triple H sends out WWE belts to the champions of major sports leagues across the globe every year. In 2018, the Washington Capitals got the strap after beating the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Final, and Devante Smith-Pelly rocked it throughout the team’s championship celebration. A year later, the Washington Nationals got the belt from Haitch after defeating the Houston Astros in the 2019 World Series.

What once was a kind gesture and free cross-branding opportunity has now become a major business deal. Thursday, the MLB and WWE announced that they had come to a multi-year agreement where replica WWE championship belts with MLB logo side plates will be available for purchase.

(more…)

By Ian Oland 2 years ago

0 Comment

The Frederick Keys will no longer be an affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles after the MLB’s minor league purge

The Frederick Keys will no longer play in the Carolina League or be a minor-league affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, ending an incredible 31-year run with the franchise that first began in 1989.

Baseball America’s JJ Cooper first reported the news, which was later confirmed by MASN’s Steve Melewski.

(more…)

By Ian Oland 2 years ago

4 Comments

Washington Nationals vote against traveling to Miami this weekend for three-game series against Marlins

The Washington Nationals will not travel to Miami, FL, to play the Miami Marlins this weekend.

According to The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, who first reported the story, the Nationals held a player vote and a vast majority of the team voted against traveling to Florida in an unprecedented move.

(more…)

By Ian Oland 3 years ago

0 Comment

Washington Nationals to rest of MLB after agreement reached on shortened season: ‘Come and get it’

The MLB and the MLB Players Association came to an agreement on a shortened season, Tuesday night. Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that players would report on July 1 and the 2020 regular season would begin approximately one month from today, on July 23rd or July 24th.

“Major League Baseball is thrilled to announce that the 2020 season is on the horizon,” Manfred said. “We have provided the Players Association with a schedule to play 60 games and are excited to provide our great fans with Baseball again soon.”

The Washington Nationals, the reigning World Series champions, tweeted out a challenge to the rest of the league shortly after the season was announced.

(more…)

By Ian Oland 3 years ago

0 Comment

Washington Nationals reverse course on pay cut to team’s minor leaguers after Sean Doolittle and players take action

The Washington Nationals, who are owned by the Lerner Family (estimated net worth of $4.3 billion), planned to cut their already-meager, weekly minor-league stipends by 25 percent from $400 to $300 in June.

Once Nationals players found out about the pay cut, they held a Zoom meeting, according to The Athletic’s Brittany Ghiroli, and decided to make up for those lost wages out of their own pockets.

Nationals reliever Sean Doolittle made the announcement Sunday night.

(more…)

By Ian Oland 3 years ago

0 Comment

MLB and Fanatics are repurposing baseball jerseys to create medical supplies for hospitals

A day after hockey equipment manufacturer Bauer announced it was creating face shields for medical professionals, the MLB and its official retailer, Fanatics, are partnering to create masks and hospital gowns for doctors and nurses during the coronavirus pandemic.

According to MLB.com, Fanatics has halted production of Major League Baseball jerseys at its 360,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Easton, Pennsylvania, and are instead creating up to one million masks and gowns.

The initial masks are made with pinstripes from Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees jerseys.

(more…)

By Ian Oland 3 years ago

0 Comment

MLB makes games available to stream meaning you can re-watch the entire Washington Nationals’ World Series run for free

The NHL made its catalog of games from the 2019-20 season available on-demand on Friday to help fans who were stir crazy during the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, the 2017-18 season was not included meaning we couldn’t re-watch the Capitals’ Stanley Cup run on NHL.TV.

But there is one local championship run you can most definitely watch now! Saturday, the MLB made its last two years of games available to watch for free on MLB.TV. That’s 4,800 games and the playoffs available to stream for free!

(more…)

By Ian Oland 3 years ago

1 Comment

All 30 MLB teams, including the Nationals and Orioles, will commit $1 million to ballpark employees

Every Major League Baseball team is pledging one million dollars for ballpark employees who are missing work due to the coronavirus. The MLB, just like the NHL, has suspended its season during the coronavirus pandemic.

The MLB has apparently learned from the NHL (props: Brennin!!), where it took four days for a majority of NHL owners to commit to taking care of their most vulnerable workers. Capitals owner Ted Leonsis was one of the first owners who pledged to do so.

ESPN’s Jeff Passan was the first to report the news.

(more…)

By Ian Oland 3 years ago

0 Comment

NHL, MLB, NBA, and MLS officially announce closing of locker rooms to media due to coronavirus concerns

The NHL just made official what Elliotte Friedman reported two days ago.

The NHL will close locker rooms to the media in an effort to limit players’ exposure, as much as possible, to the coronavirus. The sports leagues say that access will continue, but in “designated locations outside of the locker room and clubhouse setting.”

(more…)

By Ian Oland 3 years ago

0 Comment

Page 1 of 2