Grant 'officially annoyed' that Nationals have not called up James Wood

James Wood, the number five prospect in baseball and recent recipient of the Minor League Player of the Week award, is now batting .353 with a .457 OBP and 1.021 OPS to go along with seven home runs and 10 stolen bases.

The 21-year-old is red hot at the plate, and Grant says it is past time for the top-ranked Nationals product to get the call to the majors.

“He looks big-league ready. He has for several weeks,” Grant said. “He was the best player in big league spring training. Not that close. Over a month of spring training games, consistently facing big league pitching day in and day out, James Wood was the best player on the Nationals.”

Grant understood keeping Wood in Triple-A early in the season, but as he hasn’t skipped a beat since spring training, he says the struggling Nats need to promote the former second-round pick to provide a jolt to this offense.

“I am officially, today, annoyed,” Grant said. “I thought he would be up last home stand.
That was the first time I thought, ‘Well this is kind of dumb.’

“There’s plenty of room on the roster…today is the first day of ‘Now I’m officially annoyed.’”