According to WaPo’s Adam Kilgore, the Nationals will call up last years other 1st round pick(10th overall)- righty reliever Drew Storen, and he will be joining the team in St.Louis. If all things were equal Storen would’ve no doubt made the team out of spring training, but since he was drafted just last summer and the organization wanted to give other guys(Bruney,Walker) a chance to prove themselves, he was put in the minors.  Tyler Walker has been able to earn himself a spot in middle-relief, while Bruney may have earned himself either a trip to AAA or a pink slip. [...]

While baseball fans everywhere are watching to see if Washington’s first overall pick Stephen Strasburg is going to sign before the August 17th deadline, it’s their other 2009 first round pick that might reach the majors this year.  Drew Storen, a right handed pitcher from Stanford, was selected by the Nationals with the 10th overall pick that they got from failing to sign Aaron Crow last year.  Widely considered to be a cost effective selection to offset the ransom demands of Scott Boras and Strasburg, Storen is proving that it was not a mistake to draft him so high.  He [...]

Tonight I went to the Potomac Nationals game for the second week in a row.  They faced off against the Wilmington Blue Rocks, a Kansas City Royals Advanced A affiliate, in a clash for first place.  This Wilmington team was on fire, having won 11 in a row coming into tonight’s game and they had no problem making it an even dozen after an 8-1 win.  This game was pretty one sided right from the start as the Nationals’ bats never got started.  In fact, they only managed to get two hits on the day, one of them being a monstrous [...]