Daily dish of your Washington Nationals (2/25)

The Washington Nationals are in full Spring Training mode and so we will try and keep up and bring you a daily dish of Nats links.

Livan Hernandez makes his return to the Nats.  Sort of.  A minor league deal.  (The Nats Blog, Bloguin Partner)  More on Livo's return.  (Nationals Pride)

Bill Ladson reports from Spring Training that the Nats lineup is all but set, and Ian Desmond will perform multiple roles.  (All Nats All the Time)  Here is your Nats lineup.

Riggleman indicated that the starting lineup is all but set. If the season were to start Wednesday, Guzman would bat second. While Riggleman never named the entire the Opening Day lineup, the Nationals would look like this barring injuries:

Nyjer Morgan -- CF
Guzman -- SS
Ryan Zimmerman -- 3B
Adam Dunn -- 1B
Josh Willingham -- LF
Elijah Dukes -- RF
Adam Kennedy -- 2B
Ivan Rodriguez -- C

Here is a bit more on Ian Desmond and his role with the Nats.  (Washington Post)

As for the rotation, Scott Olsen has a leg up on some of the younger pitchers.  (MASN Sports)

"What we're looking for is something close to his Florida days," Riggleman said. "This was a guy who did a nice job for Florida. He threw hard, he had a good breaking ball, and he had plus-200 innings. If he's close to that, that's really good, so he's a lock. If he's not at that pace, we've got to back off a little bit. But he's going to get there."

Read it all at

http://dcprosportsreport.com/articles/washington-nationals/daily-dish-of-your-washington-nationals-225.html