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With all of the threats coming from both sides of the aisle in the contentious negotiations of the next MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in baseball, who knows if we will have a 2027 baseball season. The scheduled start day is on March 25ᵗʰ with the Washington Nationals hosting Opening Day against the Phillies.
There is nothing like hosting a real Opening Day instead of playing one on the road. But once again, MLB makes it a Phillies home opener. Those games are going to be sell-outs anyway, why make it to where Nats fans have to compete with Phillies fans to purchase tickets? Oh well, it is what it is.
After the Phillies leave town, it will probably be a series against the New York Mets. And this will probably be a ‘new look’ Mets team if the rumors are accurate that basically 21 of the team’s 26 players are all available as of yesterday on the trade market. It is easier to give you who won’t be traded as they have identified five untouchables like Juan Soto, Carson Benge, A.J. Ewing, Christian Scott, and Nolan McLean.
Speaking of trade deadline moves, Paul Toboni made it clear that James Wood will not be traded. That hasn’t stopped talking heads from creating fake clickbait that the Red Sox are in trade talks to acquire Wood.
We will have a much better idea of what our 2027 Washington Nationals will look like after the trade deadline. The team has very few pending free agents outside of the starting pitchers where Foster Griffin, Zack Littell, Miles Mikolas, and even Trevor Williams could all head to free agency. That is really it. The rest of the roster, except for Luis Garcia Jr., has multiple years of control remaining on every other player.
If CJ Abrams, Garcia Jr., Keibert Ruiz, and Jacob Young are all retained, the Nats really only need to re-build their starting rotation, and add some key bullpen arms to the roster. These next 4½ months to get us to December 1ˢᵗ is really the date to circle along with August 3ʳᵈ at 6:00 pm EDT that marks the end of the trade deadline.
Back to the 2027 schedule, the Nats will have a home series against the Miami Marlins over Memorial Day weekend, and of course the Nats are home for the traditional July 4ᵗʰ game in the nation’s capital that starts early in the day. That series will be against the A’s.
For the second year in a row, the Nats will be on the road for Father’s Day, and maybe that was requested so the team can do another road trip with the dads like they did this year in Tampa. The 2027 Father’s Day game will be in CitiField against the New York Mets.
The Nationals alternate home series year-to-year with the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. This year was the Yankees so next year the Red Sox will be in town on (April 9-11). That should help boost the early attendance along with an April series against the Los Angeles Dodgers (April 23-25) to Nationals Park for a weekend series.
Washington’s has a long 10-game road trip that will start on April 30 with a three-game series at Pittsburgh, followed by four games at Miami (May 3-6) and three games at Houston (May 7-9).
The annual Beltway Series against the Baltimore Orioles will be played across two weekends, May 25-27 at Nationals Park and July 16-18 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Prior to Opening Day, the Nats and Orioles will play a home/road game at each ballpark in exhibition games.
Washington will make four separate trips to the West Coast in 2027 and none of those are in the first 60 days of the season. The Nats first West Coast trip will be to San Francisco, May 31-June 2 and Seattle, June 4-6. The Nationals will again travel to California to face the Los Angeles Dodgers, June 28-30, as a part of six-game road trip with a visit to Milwaukee, June 25-27. From Aug. 20-26, Washington visits San Diego and Arizona and in September, the Nationals return to California to face the Los Angeles Angels, Sept. 6-8 before facing the Rockies in Colorado, Sept. 10-12.
Washington’s final homestand of the 2027 season will bring visits from National League East division rivals Atlanta Braves (Sept. 21-23) and Philadelphia Phillies (Sept. 24-26). Could there be playoff implications there?
Again, everything for 2027 hinges on the new CBA and a possible work stoppage. Don’t start making your plans until that CBA is signed.
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