(Editor’s note: I completely forgot to do this analysis in 2018; this is all back-filled):<\/p>\n
Here’s the announcement of NRIs:\u00a0https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/nationals\/news\/nationals-annouce-2018-non-roster-invitees\/c-266367066<\/p>\n
Confirmed by\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2018_Washington_Nationals_season .<\/p>\n
RHP<\/b>
\nBrady Dragmire
\nDavid Goforth
\nEdwin Jackson
\nJaron Long
\nRoman Mendez
\nChris Smith
\nCesar Vargas<\/p>\n
LHP<\/b>
\nTim Collins
\nIsmael Guillon
\nBryan Harper
\nTommy Milone<\/p>\n
C<\/b>
\nMiguel Montero
\nJhonatan Solano<\/p>\n
INF<\/b>
\nReid Brignac
\nChris Dominguez<\/p>\n
OF<\/b>
\nRyan Raburn
\nMoises Sierra<\/p>\n
Additionally, the Nationals have extended invitations to Major League Spring Training to the following four Minor League players:<\/p>\n
RHP<\/b>
\nJimmy Cordero<\/p>\n
C<\/b>
\nTaylor Gushue
\nSpencer Kieboom<\/p>\n
INF<\/b>
\nOsvaldo Abreu<\/p>\n
Did any NRIs make the 25-man roster out of spring?\u00a0 \u00a0Yes: Miguel Montero<\/strong>, who played four games (4), then was released.\u00a0 Money well spent.<\/p>\n Did any of these NRIs appear for the Nats throughout the 2018 season?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, Montero, Collins, Sierra, Cordero, Kieboom.<\/p>\n Special Mention:\u00a0Edwin Jackson<\/strong> did not appear for the Nats, but he did secure his ML release then ended up being quite productive for Oakland later in the 2018 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Editor’s note: I completely forgot to do this analysis in 2018; this is all back-filled): Here’s the announcement of NRIs:\u00a0https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/nationals\/news\/nationals-annouce-2018-non-roster-invitees\/c-266367066 Confirmed by\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2018_Washington_Nationals_season . RHP Brady Dragmire David Goforth Edwin Jackson Jaron Long Roman Mendez Chris Smith Cesar Vargas LHP Tim Collins Ismael Guillon Bryan Harper Tommy Milone C Miguel Montero Jhonatan Solano INF Reid Brignac […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3753,945,3751,4005,3752,4001,253,4003,3388,461,3390,1311,1598,3366,4004,4002,3575,2759,3683,3442,34],"class_list":["post-15657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-brady-dragmire","tag-bryan-harper","tag-cesar-vargas","tag-chris-dominguez","tag-chris-smith","tag-david-goforth","tag-edwin-jackson","tag-ismael-guillon","tag-jaron-long","tag-jhonatan-solano","tag-jimmy-cordero","tag-miguel-montero","tag-moises-sierra","tag-osvaldo-abreu","tag-reid-brignac","tag-roman-mendez","tag-ryan-raburn","tag-spencer-kieboom","tag-taylor-gushue","tag-tim-collins","tag-tommy-milone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15659,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions\/15659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}