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Here are the latest headlines and analyses around the Washington Nationals and Major League Baseball for February 25, 2022. Thank you for starting your day with us.

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Sizing up the National League East 2022: Atlanta Braves; the World Series Champions
I broke down the Atlanta Braves roster, gave out the strengths of the roster, what holes need to be patched and how they might patch them. If that interests you check out the full article here.

ICYMI: Five Nationals Prospects Who Contribute This Season
Henry wrote a wonderful article, breaking down, as the title suggests, five prospects in the Nationals system who we should expect to see this season, and if you ask me it’s a pretty good read. Check it out here.

Perspective: What to make of the Juan Soto Contract Talks and What’s Next. With the news that the Nationals offered Juan Soto 350M and he turned the offer down, there are only two realistic choices on what's next right? Haden and Richard take a closer look at those options on what's next for the Nationals and Juan Soto. Read the full article here.

Trending Now on the Nats Report: Are you the Ultimate Ryan Zimmerman fan? Take our quiz to see how much you know about "Mr. National," and don't forget to share your results with us by tagging us on Twitter. Take the quiz today.

Welcome to The Nats Report: The Soto Shuffle Pod. We just got a brand new author to the Nats Report: Henry from The Soto Shuffle Pod. He is going to be part of the Nats Report team and has already written two great articles that you should read: Five Nationals Prospects Who Could Contribute This Season& Ryan Zimmerman’s 2009 was the most underrated season of the century.

And of course, MLB and MLBPA are still meeting over the CBA
Today, MLB and MLPBA representatives met for the fourth time this week. If you want a full breakdown of the CBA negotiations up to this point that will be out later today, but the main concession MLBPA made in their counterproposal was, according to MLB insider Jeff Passan, was a change in their original proposal for the draft lottery. It is really interesting and seems on paper a solid way of combatting tanking. Let us know your thoughts and see the whole draft lottery on Passan’s Twitter here.

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