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I felt the most empowered as a baseball player when I was playing with the Nats,” Josh Bell said. “That was one of the main reasons I wanted to come back.”

It’s rare for a player to be traded away and then return to that same team later in his career. It's even rarer still for that to happen and the player becomes teammates with the players he was once traded to acquire.

Josh Bell first came to the Nationals, not by choice, on Christmas Eve 2020. Traded to Washington by the Pirates franchise that drafted him nine years earlier, he quickly embraced the team and the town and openly spoke of his desire to stay here for the long haul.

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The Washington Nationals have had a surprisingly quiet offseason, not making the splash that many expected them to. Upgrades have been made to areas of need, su

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Frozen offers a few valuable life lessons for the girlies of the 21st century. Here they are for you wrapped in cute, little, inspirational quotes! 1. “Stranger Danger.” This is simple and true. They even point it out in the movie when Anna is in the sleigh with Kristoff and she is telling him about Hans.

By now one would hope Pete Alonso has finally gotten the memo: The Mets never wanted him back. That’s why they never budged off their three-year offer in the $70 million range to him when he and his agent Scott Boras continued to push,

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