Eli Willits, the Washington Nationals’ top draft pick in 2025, sits in the dugout during media day with the Fredericksburg Nationals on Tuesday at Virginia Credit Union Stadium. (Photo by Jeff Kearney)<\/p>\n
The Fredericksburg Nationals announced their 2026 Opening Day roster Tuesday, and the list includes some familiar faces.<\/p>\n
There are 14 players that appeared in at least one game for the FredNats in previous seasons. There are also eight of the Nationals\u2019 top 30 prospects, including four in the top 10.\u00a0 The roster features two of the top 12 picks in the 2025 Major League Baseball Draft in infielder Eli Willits (No. 1 overall) and infielder\/outfielder Gavin Fien (No. 12 overall).<\/p>\n
Fredericksburg begins the 2026 campaign Friday at home against the Augusta GreenJackets. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m.<\/p>\n
Top 30 prospects have their ranking listed beside their name. Players who competed for the FredNats in the past are denoted with an asterisk.<\/p>\n
The roster is as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pitchers (alphabetical order)<\/p>\n
Jared Beck
Jonah Conradt
Carson Fischer*
Landon Harmon (No. 10)
Nolan Hughes
Luke Johnson*
Isaac Lyon
Grant Manning
Alexander Meckley*
Ryan Minckler*
Bryant Olson*
Johan Otanez*
Leuris Portorreal
Owen Puk*
Jacob Roberts
Cesar Rojas
Miguel Sime Jr. (No. 16)<\/p>\n
Catchers<\/p>\n
Christian Fagnant*
Nick Hollifield*
Sir Jamison Jones<\/p>\n
Infielders<\/p>\n
Juan Cruz
Ronny Cruz (No. 25)
Coy James (No. 17)
Rafael Ramirez Jr.*
Jacob Walsh*
Eli Willits* (No. 1)<\/p>\n
Infield\/Outfield<\/p>\n
Luke Dickerson* (No. 8)
Gavin Fien (#5)<\/p>\n
Outfielders<\/p>\n
Yeremy Cabrera (No. 20)
Jack Moroknek
Nick Peoples*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eli Willits, the Washington Nationals’ top draft pick in 2025, sits in the dugout during media day with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,10543,21690,4,415,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-655589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-fredericksburg-nationals","10":"tag-frednats","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-nationals","13":"tag-washington","14":"tag-washington-nationals","15":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116326819833140113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655589","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=655589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}