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PLAYER REVIEW: JOSE A. FERRER
Age on Opening Day 2026: 26
How acquired: Signed as international free agent, July 2017
MLB service time: 2 years, 94 days
2025 salary: $765,400
PLAYER REVIEW: SHINNOSUKE OGASAWARA
Age on Opening Day 2026: 28
How acquired: Signed as international free agent, January 2025
MLB service time: 66 days
2025 salary: $1.5 million
PLAYER REVIEW: ANDREW ALVAREZ
Age on Opening Day 2026: 26
How acquired: 12th-round pick, 2021 MLB Draft
MLB service time: 28 days
2025 salary: $760,000
PLAYER REVIEW: MITCHELL PARKER
Age on Opening Day 2026: 26
How acquired: Fifth round pick, 2020 MLB Draft
MLB service time: 2 years
2025 salary: $767,200
PLAYER REVIEW: CADE CAVALLI
Age on Opening Day 2026: 27
How acquired: First round pick, 2020 MLB Draft
MLB service time: 2 years, 141 days
2025 salary: $760,200
Despite his sluggish second half, James Wood’s total production this season still earned him recognition as one of the best hitters in baseball.
Wood today was named a finalist for the Silver Slugger Award, one of six National League outfielders in the running for the honor. Three winners will be named Nov. 6, along with the winners for each of the league’s other positions.
Joining Wood on the list of finalists are the Diamondbacks’ Corbin Carroll, the Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong, the Mets’ Juan Soto, the Marlins’ Kyle Stowers and the Cubs’ Kyle Tucker.
Wood finished the season with 38 doubles, 31 home runs, 94 RBIs, a .256 batting average, .350 on-base percentage and .475 slugging percentage, plus 15 stolen bases. Among NL outfielders, the 23-year-old ranked in the top three in doubles, homers and extra-base hits.
It was a dynamic first half of the season, though, that put Wood in a position to finish with those numbers and earned him the first All-Star nod and Home Run Derby invitation of his young career. He entered the break with a .278/.381/.534 slash line, 24 homers and 69 RBIs, then slashed .223/.301/.388 with seven homers and 25 RBIs after that.
PLAYER REVIEW: BRAD LORD
Age on Opening Day 2026: 26
How acquired: 18th round pick, 2022 MLB Draft
MLB service time: 1 year
2025 salary: $760,000
PLAYER REVIEW: JAKE IRVIN
Age on Opening Day 2026: 29
How acquired: Fourth round pick, 2018 MLB Draft
MLB service time: 2 years, 152 days
2025 salary: $774,600
PLAYER REVIEW: MACKENZIE GORE
Age on Opening Day 2026: 27
How acquired: Traded with CJ Abrams, James Wood, Robert Hassell III, Jarlin Susana and Luke Voit from Padres for Juan Soto and Josh Bell, August 2022
MLB service time: 4 years
2025 salary: $2.89 million
PLAYER REVIEW: DREW MILLAS
Age on Opening Day 2026: 28
How acquired: Traded with Richard Guasch and Seth Shuman from Athletics for Yan Gomes and Josh Harrison, July 2021
MLB service time: 178 days
2025 salary: $760,000
PLAYER REVIEW: PAUL DeJONG
Age on Opening Day 2026: 32
How acquired: Signed as free agent, February 2025
MLB service time: 8 years, 57 days
2025 salary: $1 million
PLAYER REVIEW: NASIM NUNEZ
Age on Opening Day 2026: 25
How acquired: Selected in 2023 Rule 5 Draft
MLB service time: 1 year, 89 days
2025 salary: $760,000
PLAYER REVIEW: BRADY HOUSE
Age on Opening Day 2026: 22
How acquired: First round pick, 2021 Draft
MLB service time: 107 days
2025 salary: $760,000
Jacob Young gets a second crack at becoming only the third Gold Glove Award winner in Nationals history.
Young was named a finalist for the award this morning, one of three competing to be honored as the best defensive center fielder in the National League. He’s joined by the Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Cardinals’ Victor Scott II.
The winner will be announced Nov. 3.
It’s the second straight year Young has been named a Gold Glove finalist. Though he seemed to have a stronger statistical case for the award in 2024, he ultimately lost out to the Rockies’ Brenton Doyle.
Young’s case this season isn’t quite as concrete. He was one of only three regular major league position players with a 1.000 fielding percentage. But he ranked second to Crow-Armstrong in FanGraphs’ overall Defensive Rating (17.7 to 12.3) and Defensive Runs Saved (15 to 13). And he ranked third to both Crow-Armstrong and Scott in Statcast’s Outs Above Average (24 to 16 to 14) and Runs Prevented (22 to 14 to 13).
PLAYER REVIEW: CJ ABRAMS
Age on Opening Day 2026: 25
How acquired: Traded with James Wood, MacKenzie Gore, Robert Hassell III, Jarlin Susana and Luke Voit from Padres for Juan Soto and Josh Bell, August 2022
MLB service time: 3 years, 130 days
2025 salary: $780,600
PLAYER REVIEW: LUIS GARCIA JR.
Age on Opening Day 2026: 25
How acquired: Signed as international free agent, July 2016
MLB service time: 4 years, 142 days
2025 salary: $4.5 million
PLAYER REVIEW: JOSH BELL
Age on Opening Day 2026: 33
How acquired: Signed as free agent, January 2025
MLB service time: 9 years, 53 days
2025 salary: $6 million
PLAYER REVIEW: KEIBERT RUIZ
Age on Opening Day 2026: 27
How acquired: Traded with Josiah Gray, Donovan Casey and Gerardo Carrillo from Dodgers for Max Scherzer and Trea Turner, July 2021
MLB service time: 4 years, 64 days
2025 salary: $6 million
PLAYER REVIEW: RILEY ADAMS
Age on Opening Day 2026: 29
How acquired: Acquired from Blue Jays for Brad Hand, July 2021
MLB service time: 3 years, 171 days
2025 salary: $850,000
PLAYER REVIEW: ROBERT HASSELL III
Age on Opening Day 2026: 24
How acquired: Traded with James Wood, CJ Abrams, MacKenzie Gore, Jarlin Susana and Luke from Padres for Juan Soto and Josh Bell, August 2022
MLB service time: 85 days
2025 salary: $760,000
