Ryan Zimmerman is penciled is as the DH and clean-up hitter as the Washington Nationals take on the St. Louis Cardinals this afternoon in Grapefruit League action. It's Zimmerman's 2016 debut after he struggled with injury issues last season.
Washington Post columnist Thomas Boswell took a tough love approach to the Washington Nationals' injury issues last week, recommending changes necessary to keep aging and oft-injured position players Jayson Werth and Ryan Zimmerman and even younger ones like Anthony Rendon, who has dealt with injury issues since his college days, on the field for the full season in 2016.