James Wood: The Emerging Talent in the Nationals Team
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00:00 Well, the first guy to talk about is James Wood, who was the linchpin in the Juan Soto
00:07 trade with the Washington nationals. Yes. CJ Abrams was part of that trade, but also
00:11 James Wood. And I think what is one of these players you're going to look at and say, all
00:14 right, this is a player that has enormous power potential. You've seen that on display
00:19 rate in the spring, three homers already five RBI hitting three 75. Again, it's early it's
00:24 spring training. It doesn't mean much a 1250 OPS it's eyeopening though. And it makes a
00:28 good impression on the big club. Now, James would last year, if you look back at the numbers
00:33 between high and double a combined 129 games, 26 homers, 91 RBI. He also had 18 stolen bases.
00:41 So he's got some speed as well. Folks hit two 62 with a five 20 slugging. Now he did
00:47 struggle a little bit at double a, my guess is he's probably going to start at double
00:51 a this year, maybe just give him another 50 at bats, bump them to triple a. But at some
00:55 point this season, my guess is probably after the all-star break, you could see James would
01:01 making an impact here for the Washington nationals. They were already showing you, they're trying
01:04 to move this organization forward, get these guys some experience, CJ Abrams. They were
01:09 very patient with last year and it paid off. I'm not saying they're going to rust James
01:12 wood. If wood should struggle at all in triple a, then yeah, you will spend the entire year
01:17 there. But if he dominates the way he did in high a, and most of the time at double
01:21 a last year, you're going to see would make an impact. It's a name to keep on your radar.
01:25 It's a name in dynasty leagues that I think is going to probably have an estimated time
01:29 of arrival. Like I said, I would think August of this year, maybe sooner. You never know
01:34 if he just completely lights up the board. If he has such a great spring that they say,
01:38 you know what, let's just start them in triple a, then you're going to see him a little bit
01:42 sooner than it's probably going to be more like July.
01:43 [inaudible].