The defending World Series champion Washington Nationals announced the 60-Man Player Pool of players for the upcoming 2020 season* on Sunday afternoon, with a few surprising-ish names on the list, and the Nats also provided a roster update on one of their apparently injured players who was currently on the 40-Man roster.
The Player Pool, for this shortened, 60-game season, “is a list of players who will be eligible to participate in Major League games during the 2020 season.”
Ryan Zimmerman, who has been pondering whether to play baseball with the coronavirus pandemic still a serious issue around the country and world, is on the Nationals’ 60-man roster, though that is likely not definitive evidence that he’s made a decision on starting a 16th major league season after he signed a 1-year/$2M with the club this winter, since the players still have the option of opting out of playing this season (with their full prorated pay if they’re deemed “high risk” health-wise).