{"id":561091,"date":"2026-02-08T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/561091\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:26:14","slug":"espn-projects-two-washington-nationals-cj-abrams-trade-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/561091\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN projects two Washington Nationals, CJ Abrams trade packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the trade outside of the division already makes it a more logical move for the Nationals, it would also mark a second chance for Toboni to pull off a <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/sports\/mlb\/nationals\/news\/nationals-paul-toboni-talks-cj-abrams-jacob-young-trade-rumors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trade with his former club involving a pair of pitchers<\/a> after acquiring Jake Bennett in exchange for Luis Perales. Similar to the deal with Atlanta, ESPN also projects two more top-100 prospects including Early, who ranks 48th in ESPN&#8217;s prospect rankings, in the Nationals&#8217; return. Hamilton would also help to fill the void left by Abrams departure while adding a pair of possible impact arms to what is already a strong group of pitchers in Washington&#8217;s farm system, including <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/sports\/mlb\/nationals\/opinion\/nationals-pitcher-among-players-in-line-for-2026-bounce-back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one who was tabbed as a bounce back candidate in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the trade outside of the division already makes it a more logical move for the Nationals, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,4,415,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-561091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-nationals","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-nationals","13":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116035243582660418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}