Ten players from within the Nationals organization have been invited to the team's major league camp this spring, the team announced on social media Monday afternoon.
The list does not include free agent minor league signings, most of which have already been reported on by other sources including District on Deck. It also does not include members of the secondary 40-man roster; all players present on said roster are automatically invited to camp. For posterity, we'll go over all currently known non-roster invitees (players invited to the big league camp not currently on the 40-man roster) here, sorted by category.
Prospect rankings within the team's top 30 are according to MLB Pipeline; updated grades have not been released at the per-team level, yet, so players are slotted in by their end-of-2025 grades. Also listed is the age the player will be on June 30 and the level of the minors they're at (assuming they're not rehabbing from injury).
Prospects
RHP Jarlin Susana (22, MLB No. 87)
RHP Travis Sykora (22, MLB No. 49)
The Nationals' top two pitching prospects are both going to be present in big league camp, though neither of them will be participating when games start being played. Susana underwent lat surgery on his shoulder in mid-September after throwing fewer than 60 innings because of a May and June UCL sprain that kept him on the sideline. No timeline has been given publicly for his availability for game action.
Sykora's case is a little more open and shut; a torn UCL necessitated reconstruction surgery in August, and he's likely to miss his entire age-22 season while rehabbing. Both players still have reason to be in big league camp; it's not uncommon for injured top prospects to be present there, as it's a critical time for coaching, development, and conditioning.
C Caleb Lomavita (23, Nats No. 15, Double-A)
Lomavita cracks his second major league camp with the Nationals. He spent most of 2025 at Advanced-A Wilmington where he didn't produce much of a power stroke, but was promoted to Double-A Harrisburg near season's end as catchers moved up the chain out of necessity organization-wide. The Honolulu native was given decent scouting grades at Pipeline's most recent update around the end of the '25 season.
SS Seaver King (23, Nats No. 10, Double-A)
The Nationals' 10th overall pick in the 2024 Draft heads to his first major league camp this spring. King's struggled to find his footing at the plate since being drafted, with an OBP under .300 and ISO of just .093 in his first full professional season in 2025. A trip to the Arizona Fall League where he talked with top prospect Kevin McGonigle of the Tigers led him to simplify his swing and saw him put up torrid numbers, with an OPS north of 1.000 in 18 games. With a new coaching staff and more information available to him, King looks to make the most of big league camp.
1B/3B Yohandy Morales (24, Nats No. 26, Triple-A)
3B Cayden Wallace (24, Double-A)
LF Phillip Glasser (26, Triple-A)
OF Andrew Pinckney (25, Nats No. 30, Triple-A)
Morales, Wallace, Glasser, and Pinckney all have varied paths to the major leagues ahead of them. Yoyo Morales has slipped to 26th in the Nationals top 30 after several prospect acquisitions this offseason. Seen as a steal for the Nationals as the 40th overall pick in the 2023 Draft, he's struggled to acclimate to the Triple-A level with a strikeout rate north of 30%. Standing 6'3", he boasts excellent raw power, but with increased competition on the corners of the infield, he'll need to do a lot right to earn a roster spot.
Wallace made his way to the Nats organization in July of 2024, in the swap that sent Hunter Harvey to the Royals. He spent all of 2025 with Double-A Harrisburg where his offensive production hovered around league average. The Nats would love to see him either increase his walk rate or cut his strikeout rate this spring before he likely heads to Triple-A.
I wrote briefly about Glasser at the start of December. A 10th-round pick in 2023 for just $20,000, the Nats named him their Minor League Hitter of the Year in 2025 after he scorched Double-A to the tune of a 132 wRC+. Glasser jumped from a utility role to a primary left field position in 2025, and now with a defined spot on the field, will try to make the majors in his fourth professional season.
Pinckney, like Morales, slid down the Nationals' top 30 amid their prospect acquisition spree this offseason. Signed six rounds ahead of Glasser in 2023, he held his own at Triple-A in 2025 with 20 home runs and a 108 wRC+, but struck out in over 29% of his plate appearances. Pinckney plays all three outfield positions, but is looking at most likely the ceiling of a fourth outfielder.
MLB Experience
LHP Shinnosuke Ogasawara (28, Triple-A)
INF Trey Lipscomb (26, Triple-A)
Ogasawara and Lipscomb have been to the big leagues with Washington, but both passed through outright waivers unclaimed at the end of the 2025 season. Both currently reside in Triple-A, but are eligible to be selected back to the 40-man roster at any time provided there's room for them. Spring Training will be an opportunity for them to try to earn their MLB spot back.
Lipscomb spent most of 2025 in Triple-A, where he didn't really do any one thing consistently well enough to warrant a ton of consideration for a bench role over someone like Nasim Nuñez. Slashing .249/.305/.392 for an 82 wRC+ in the International League, Lipscomb, who will be 26 in June, is down to probably his last thread if he wants to be more than utility depth in the Nationals organization.
Ogasawara was a posting by the Chunichi Dragons of Japan's NPB in December of 2024, and the Nationals gave him a shot on a two-year, $3.5 million contract. Even if he doesn't crack the major league roster, "Big Cowboy" is still set to make his guaranteed $1.75 million this year. He started the year in the minors in 2025 after a shaky spring where he allowed 15 earned runs over 12 innings. Three starts into his Triple-A career, Ogasawara went down with an oblique strain that wouldn't see him return to game action for 2 months.
He got his first chance at starting in the big leagues in early July but struggled, getting sent down for another brief stint with the Red Wings before coming back up for good as a multi-inning reliever at the start of August following the trade deadline. Ogasawara, never known as a strikeout artist, ended his first MLB campaign with an ERA a couple ticks under 7 in 38.2 innings, with a strikeout rate 5 points lower than league average and over two home runs per nine innings. 2026 might be Ogasawara's last hurrah stateside.
Free Agent Signings
- RHRP Trevor Gott (33) -- Analysis
- RHRP Bryce Montes De Oca (30) -- Analysis
- LHRP Zach Penrod (28) -- Analysis
- RHRP Eddy Yean (25) -- Analysis
- RHRP Tyler Baum (28) -- Analysis
- C Tres Barrera (31)
- 1B Matt Mervis (28) -- Analysis
- 1B Warming Bernabel (24) -- Analysis
- 2B Orelvis Martínez (24) -- Analysis
With more likely to come, the Nats have signed nine players to minor league deals with invitations to major league Spring Training.
It's a homecoming for two players: Eddy Yean and Tres Barrera both started their careers with the Nationals. Barrera first cracked the majors with them in 2019 as a 24-year-old and had a brief 30-game stint in 2021 where he delivered a solid performance. He hasn't seen major league action since 2023 with St. Louis; 2024 was spent in the Mexican Summer League, and he played in the upper minors for the Rays in 2025.
Yean was a 16-year-old signing out of the Dominican Republic by the Nationals in 2017. A starter as a teenager, Yean was traded to the Pirates with Wil Crowe in the 2020-21 offseason deal that brought Josh Bell to the Nats for the first time, where he transitioned to a relief role. Eddy had a tough 2025 in Triple-A Indianapolis: despite a 3.06 ERA in 50 appearances, he barely struck out more batters than he walked, and his FIP was nearly two runs higher. He'll get a chance to prove that he's worthy of an MLB bullpen spot this spring.
Trevor Gott has the most major league experience of the reliever group, including three years from 2016-18 with the Nationals, though he didn't make much of an impact in his 33 games wearing the curly W. Gott underwent Tommy John surgery just before the 2024 season after signing a major league deal with the Athletics, and ended up playing for Triple-A Tacoma (Seattle) in 2025. He'll try to earn his first major league innings since 2023 in camp.