This was supposed to be the season that Fredericksburg landed its own Single-A minor-league team with young players working their way up the ladder.
Instead, the city of about 30,000 people got something else – a bevy of baseball players with Major League resumes. But the good folks of Fredericksburg, about 55 miles south of Nationals Park, won’t be able to get a first-hand look at these players due to the pandemic.
The Nationals are using Fredericksburg as their alternate site for workouts for members of the 60-player pool who are not on the game-day or taxi squad roster for Washington.