ORLANDO – Before catcher Harry Ford traveled across the pond to visit his family, he learned he was going to be playing baseball across the United States with a new Major League team.

Ford, 22, was home in Georgia when he got the call that he was traded from the Mariners to the Nationals for right-hander Jose A. Ferrer in a three-player deal.

“It was shocking,” Ford said from Oxford, England, on a Zoom Monday morning. “But I’m ready to do it with this team as well.”

A 2021 first-round Draft pick out of high school, the Mariners were the only organization Ford had known. Ranked as MLB’s No. 42 overall prospect , Ford had spent most of that time developing in the Minor Leagues. He made his big league debut on Sept. 5 and appeared in eight games as a September callup.

But on a c

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