WASHINGTON - After he was the pitching coach for Triple-A Salt Lake with the Angels in 2019, Pat Rice joined the player development system of the Nationals.
And then he waited - he was to be the pitching coach last year with Single-A Hagerstown but the season was called due to the pandemic.
Then, Hagerstown lost its team after Major League Baseball eliminated about 40 minor league clubs after 2020.
“I was itching,” Rice, now the Fredericksburg Nationals’ pitching coach, told Federal Baseball of having no season in 2020.
“I have been in the game a long time.