2025

THE LEAD: Harrisburg, Wilmington, Fred-Nats stay afloat, Rochester Plummets Again

There is truly nothing like the highs and the lows of a baseball season. Every team, no matter how good or how bad they are, or what level they play at, goes through the good times and the bad times. In two weeks, the Rochester Red Wings saw both sides. The three teams below them, Harrisburg, Wilmington, and Fredericksburg, all stayed afloat, keeping an easy medium, not going into those good times quite yet, but neither totally going off the side of a cliff like the Red Wings. Also, this week we had another week of incredible pitching performances… are we finally getting close to another Cade Cavalli call-up? We’ll cover everything the Nationals Minor League teams had to offer last week in this version of theFUTURE.

 Prospect Profile

Prospect Journey: Seaver King

This past week, the Harrisburg Senators welcomed infielder Seaver King to their depleted lineup. In a small sample size, the 22-year-old got into a groove quickly, batting .280 in his first six games. After a slow start and decline in power numbers in High-A Wilmington, he has started to get on a heater as of the last couple of weeks. On this edition of “Players Journey,” we’ll deep dive into Seaver King.

King was one of the best Division II players in the country in his two seasons at Wingate with a 47-game hitting streak in 2022-23 and a .411 average and 1.155 OPS as a sophomore. That earned him looks in the Cape Cod League and with the U.S. collegiate national team, and after he continued to hit at both spots, he transferred to Wake Forest for his junior year. King kept it going with the Demon Deacons squad, slashing .308/.377/.577 with 16 homers in 60 games as a junior. He was then drafted by the Washington Nationals 10th overall in the 2024 MLB First Year Player Draft. He signed for a below-draft-slot bonus.

King has a good right-handed swing that can spray the ball around the field. His flat bat path may also dull his in-game power unless he can adjust it while in the minors. King is an excellent runner and athlete, and he played all over for Wake Forest.

In 2024, King got 20 games in at Single-A Fredericksburg, slashing .295/.367/.385; he didn’t have a home run, which concerned some people if he would never tap into some power. In 2025, King was rewarded for his good play in Fredericksburg and started at High-A Wilmington, King started very slow batting under the mendoza line for the first month or so and then he started to hit some more gap shots while also hitting a couple long balls, no one was sure if it was the cold weather or the mindset of hitting more balls in the air that led to the bad start for King but thats in the past as he got the call to go to Double-A Harrisburg, while in Wilmington King hit .263 with a .307 on-base percentage and 12 extra base hits (three being home runs) in 45 games.

Seaver King, after the slow start, is now back on the radar of many fans. While he has a lot of development left, you have to like the gap power and athleticism he’s shown, but there is still some room to master the position of shortstop defensively as well as tap into that previously acknowledged home run power. It will only be a while until we figure out what King turns into but things are looking up right now.

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