nyjer morgan, mike rizzo joining me now bringing a lost speed to this team. when you look at the numbers, the nationals have 26 stolen bases and he's got 18 already this season. take it a step further, willie harris who leads the team has seven and nyjer has eight in the month of june. tell us how this deal got conducted, mike. >> it was really a deal brokered by both clubs, the pirates and myself. you know, we both were dealing from strengths. our strength was corn -- right- handed hitting corner outfielders and their strength was athletic, center field-type ability guys. they had mcclowt and mccutcheon really in center field. nyjer was playing left field for them. we were look for an athletic, defensive, speed-orientated center field type. >> how about sean burnett, the left-handed pitcher, the reliever that has started in the past. how does he affect this team and what will he bring to the club? >> he brings a talented, battle- tested left-handed reliever that we control for sever several years. >> he grow with the ball club. he'll be an important part as

it's been basically two and a half years for mike rizzo and stan, mike rizzo the acting general manager, he needs to be the full time general manager. they have a great staff. so that's someone from the outside looking in, and i love kenny, but this team has never quit. they've never given up in any game that i've watched this season. there's mike on the phone. >> bob: according to byron, stan said he wouldn't comment on media speculation. that stopped short of saying the report's not true. time will tell. two balls and two strikes to nick johnson. that ball out to left center. carl crawford speed to burn, he was waiting for it.  try chili's new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at $6.99. flame-grilled tortillas layered with chicken, bacon, cheese, and ranch. crispy on the outside, melted perfection on the inside. new fire-grilled quesadillas. only at chili's. >> bob: here's the at&t rap rewind. at&t, the nation's fastest 3-g network. your world delivered. those are basically your long ball highlights. a little bit of pitching by zimmermann so far. a well-played, well-p

. >> rob: baseball america rated the nationals draft with mike rizzo and sam casten number 1. there is that nasty breaking ball by garza. fastball, fastball, fastball, get ahead, big breaking ball. >> bob: here is willie harris who bounced out twice. what i'm trying to say, my message to our fans is, we know that this is difficult for you. we certainly do. >> rob: we'll all grow together. >> bob: that's a great way to put it. then when you win, you look back and say, you know what, we did it the right way. >> rob: that's right. >> bob: you can say, i came to the ballpark when we had 75 people there at the end of an extra inning game delayed by rain for two and a half hours. you know, crazy things happen on this journey. >> rob: well, you know, they keep comparing this ball club to the '62 mets. well, seven short years later, they win a world championship and they are the miracle mets. >> bob: the amazings. >> rob: the amazings. >> bob: if you want a little perspective on that, i wrote a blog on that last weekend which is on the masn website. the yankees -- or the mets back the

got a good man in mike rizzo. >> johnny: you're not kidding. and with the draft of the day of strasburg it's up to the powers that be, stan kasten and the lerner family and mike and everybody else to get involved, they have got until august the 15th. >> rob: a win would put a cherry on top of that. >> johnny: zimmerman, base hit to left field. ryan will take the turn, go for second. here is the throw and zimmerman in standing up with a double. >> rob: nice.   . >> johnny: and the nats hav got the tying run at second base.  . >> rob: zimmerman gets a fan right here, just pokes it back up the middle but he hits it hard enough into left center field, wind up on second base with a little bit of hustle. so zimmerman hustling all night tonight pays off. >> johnny: we saw him hustle that last time up on that fielder's choice. he was able to beat it out. ryan at second base, one out here in the bottom of the seventh inning. don will be up for the fourth time tonight, he flew out to babe ruth's in rig

there's quite a buzz down here, mike rizzo the national's acting general manager will stand here and talk about the nats' top pick. it's been an exciting day but a busy couple weeks. they have been here at national's park for the last two weeks, in at 8:30 in the morning, my sources tell me the earliest they have left is midnight so putting in a lot of hard work and hours, the leader of scouting leading the way. chris klein, the national crosschecker and assistant scout, if first here and last to leave, and the western crosschecker has been busy. but nobody is more busy than mike rise zo. in addition to juggling his gm duties he has also been overseeing and going out and scouting a lot of these draft picks so he has the busiest blackberry in baseball. mark lerner and ted lerner have been out to see steven strays bourg, that doesn't happen very often in major league baseball. a lot on the line with this pick. manny acta saying what a franchise moment this is, he is also very confident steven has the makeup to live up to all this hype. we'll have lots more from the draft room in the pr

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i think mike rizzo is going to be looking for a center fielder. >> when you look at what this ball club has done, four straight wins, probably played the best baseball these last four. >> pitching and defense, amazing what a difference that makes when you've got good starting pitching seven innings and solid defense. it gives you a chance to win every game as long as you can score a couple runs. >> happy father's day to you. anticipating father's day for you. mark of the washington times. stick around. we've got nationals baseball coming up when they try to go for their fifth consecutive win. remember they had seven straight last year, august 26 through september 1. bob and rob coming up in a couple moments. welcome to chili's. something new is on the grill. try chili's new fire-grilled quesadillas, starting at just $6.99. like our bacon-ranch chicken quesadilla, flame-grilled tortillas layered with all white meat chicken, applewood smoked bacon, jack cheese, and ranch dressing. they're crispy on the outside, melted to perfection on the inside. you've never tasted quesadillas like this

i just talked to mike rizzo, mike loves the way he handles himself at shortstop. he said if he got a chance to play more he'd be a very good second baseman, even though he only spells hernandez there occasionally, he is still considered an above average second baseman for a position he very seldom plays. i think you guys all saw his arm. >> rob: before you joined us, that's what i was telling jim about that, is that this kid went down to the minor leagues for four weeks, he worked on some of his lesser things and he improved. >> bob: that was one of his bigger swings lately. you really need it these days. how come? well if you're hurt and can't work it pays you cash... yeah to help with everyday bills like gas, the mortgage... ...and groceries. it's like insurance for daily living. so...what's it called? uhhhhh aflaaac!!!! oh yeah! that's it! aflac. we've got you under our wing. a-a-a-aflaaac!  >> bob: screech is here and so is his buddy the oriole bird for this interleague series. lots of walks. the number one draft pick in the house, and a beautiful ev

mike rizzo got some good news today. seven more draftees signed. 23 of 50 now have signed contracts, and three of the top four. first pitch, one hopper. bonifacio looked like he might have been battling the lights on that one. that can happen on a chopping ground ball. olsen next, then willie harris. they'd grand slam flex plan we've been telling you about. this will be good for a long time this year, because it's just four games you pay for it and you get one free. pick your plan, your games, your seats, get a free game, it's that easy. nationals also signed their second rounder, the second baseman from cal. he's a 6 to the 2 slugger. >> rob: second baseman, 6'2"? we like that size. >> bob: who does he think he is? jeff kent? >> rob: jeff kent. >> bob: let's hope he's not so grumpy. >> rob: so true. >> bob: but jeff sure could play. he just didn't know how to have fun. >> rob: you know what he said? he said i want to leave this game with no friends at all insuring the game. so, i mean, yeah, i think he pretty much succe

we have been told by mike rizzo that these guys are not on any count for the year. there will come a time when, if they have to, they will shut down some of these young arms on the staff and i agree with him. if you've got some kind of plan for these kids for the future, which they do here and you're going to stick to it, then you have to shut them down but you have to find pitching somewhere he is else in the organization and that's when they have to go down to the minor league and bring people up. >> bob: september is going to be interesting around here. >> rob: everybody will wear name tags. hey, hi, my name is -- and i came from -- harrisburg or syracuse. >> rob: some of the young bucks there, lannan. >> bob: yeah, lannan, the old man now. it's so funny watching because, two years ago, you could not get john to say anything. now, he is lying leading those kids around -- he is like leading those kids around. >> rob: look at that. detwiler, pore porcello, cecil, zimmerman. >> bob: that's a pretty good draft. >> rob: got to get off that rubber quicker. two outs, fo

mike rizzo dana brown, i know they helped build up that arizona razorback prospects, a lot of old guys in there, a lot of college guys. >> johnny: so they go to the bottom of the sixth at national agencies park. adam dunn trying to get the nationals back in this ball game trailing 3-1.  with only three base hits t far for washington tonight. . >> rob: the one thi just looked it up, i knew there was something professional about cueto, he has a change-up to go, he learned from mario soto and that's his equalizer, i knew he had great fastball, change-up, but he learned it from mario soto down in the dominican republican. >> johnny: a high fly down the left field line, going to drift up in the stands foul. nice run by jonny gomes the try to run it down.  so  soto some is th taught him that. >> rob: yes. >> johnny: good guy to learn it from. rob ron and there's days you can go out and throw a change- up. you've got to sell it on the arm speed. right now i mean three hits off this kid through five innings

signed by mike rizzo originally for $1,000 with the diamondbacks out of the university of memphis. memphis state at that time. and that's a good fastball outer half. >> rob: so far so good for scott olsen. he looks free and easy. is he just comfortable in letting the ball go, and he is. >> bob: challenge him with a fastball right in there. >> rob: sometimes you come back and you keep looking for that phantom pain and you're kind of always checking out your arm. put it behind him mentally, he'll be fine. >> bob: the marlins swept baltimore here, then they went to tampa bay and didn't hit. their five through eight hitters were a combined 4 for 32 in that three-game series. so fredi gonzalez got no production from the bottom of his batting order. uggla has hit four homers his last nine games. then he fouls it straight back. but this is a ball club that won in every way you could imagine, especially in the late innings in our ballpark. and they started the season 11- 1. since then they're 27-38. and the 3-2 to uggla. got him with a breaking ball that appeared down low. changing speeds

you just saw mike rizzo say eh wait a minute, nobody comes right from college into a major league ball club. >> i had a conversation with jury adjuster against, he is a guy they traded to get edgar rent a rhea, they traded a young pitcher. he goes out there, throws 188 pitches last -- 188 innings last year, he told me today, he said "i had to go the whole off- season to try to ready myself at 2 years old to, you know, get yourself ready for 200 plus innings. you got strasbourg, he threw 110 innings this year. and penal think he is gopen a step right up here from college and pitch another 50 innings? david price, his last year at vanderbilt. pitched 133 innings, then he got sent back to the minor leagues not just for more conditioning but to be able to throw his balls when he is behind in the count. you have to be able to you know evaluate yourself at this level which is different than the nfl, different than the nba, where you can go right from college drilling 1 right into the major sports. so to me, yeah, strays boying might be ready as far as physically but, mentally, can he tell hi

gm mike rizzo has been on the phone. he's been busy the last 24 hours or so putting together a two for two with the pittsburgh pirates. bob carpenter, rob dibble. receipts talk -- let's talk about who is leaving with troubled layers in this organization. it's lastings milledge and joel hanrahan to the pirates. >> rob: well, lastings milledge has been demoted to the minor leagues out right now with a broken finger. joel hanrahan has a ton of upside. throws in the mid-90s, upper 90s. he's getting in trouble with off-speed stuff. they were sent over to pittsburgh. you know, we get nyjer morgan in return also sean burnett a- very good reliever. we got speed. can fly on the base pads. he's got i think 18 stolen bases so -- so far this year. more importantly on the defensive side t-makes our outfield a little better. in the bullpen, burnett has a lot of appearances and been very successful at the major league level. so, we gave up a couple guys that maybe don't fit into our future. here the future is now with nyjer morgan and

that is what i'm sure manny acta and mike rizzo expected out of this young man. the future of this organization at shortstop. >> johnny: good combination out there with guzman and gonzalez. >> rob: theur will be anderson, hernandez a gonzalez. those two young men have a nice career in dpront of them. they have to -- in front of them. keep evolving andbe something tu better yourself. use the losing and try to use it in your stuff the next time. >> johnny: three goes guzman. shot up te center. taken by gonzalez on to first and there's one down. but guzman gets to 2nd base. gonzalez retiring gonzalez. >> rob: well, you put a runner in motion to tryú to keep yourself out of a double-play. no outs. y a run right here. cristian guzman easily to 2nd base. we h the mt of the order coming up withcoring position. >> johnny: ryan zimmerman up for the second time today. he is 0-1. flew out to left field to jonny gomes back in the first. on the gun, 87 that time for micah owings. >> rob: getting back to even 1990 when we won the championship, we were 5th place in '89. we wer

talking to mike rizzo, he said he's one of the best runners they scouted. you can never, ever get enough of middle infielders. this kid has played everywhere. we'll excited about getting him signed, the 50th pick in the draft, our first pick in the second round. his father actually played in the seattle farm system. he should be ready to roll when he gets here knowing how to play this game correctly. >> and a young kid, only 20 years of age, all pac 10 honors in the 2009 at cal and berkeley. scott olsen, ricky nolasco tonight, the pitching match just for game one of the series in south florida. it is raining down there, so stick around. a good scene of the field. bob carpenter coming up with rob dibble. we'll see you after the ballgame.

. >> mike rizzo did. he called me about five minutes after and just kind of said "congratulations." >> andy: how excited they were and i don't think he was nearly as excited as i was, that's for sure. >> rob: now back when you sided to go to stanford did you ever think you would go so high in the draft. it is a good academic school as well as a good baseball school. >> i didn't expect it but i didn't think it was out of the question because of the quality program and the great pitchers that have come out of there before and i didn't expect to go 10th over all but i thought i had a good possibility of getting up there so it ended up working out all right. >> johnny: you are good friends with jack ma geary, weren't you roommates? >> we're roommates and we have been talking the last couple weeks and we were both really hoping this was gonna workout because it would be pretty awesome. >> rob: do you want to catch up with him in the minor leagues or get up to the big leagues quicker. >> i also wouldn't mind ca