Let’s face it, Turner’s ready for postseason debut

WASHINGTON — There are three players pictured on the side of a new promotional truck, branded the #Natmobile, outside of Nationals Park. One of them is Bryce Harper, the 2015 National League Most Valuable Player and not only one of the faces of the Nats, but all of Major League Baseball. The second is Max Scherzer, Washington’s ace who could win his second Cy Young Award this season.

The other? Trea Turner.

Turner has played just 73 games in the Majors this season, but he has already positioned himself among the faces of the franchise. His exciting style of play featuring a mix of speed, athleticism and surprising power has helped carry the Nationals into the postseason, which will begin Friday (5:30 p.m. ET on FS1) at Nationals Park when the NL Division Series begins against the Dodgers.

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“When Trea came, Trea gave us another weapon, another element,” Nationals manager Dusty Baker said. “I mean, here’s a young man batting leadoff that drove in 40 runs and hit 13 home runs and stole 30 bases in half a season. He had tremendous, tremendous impact on our lineup, and it had a lot to do with us winning.

“He’s a combination of speed and power which is rare these days. You don’t know if he’s going to top one, bunt one, get a walk, steal and the opposition doesn’t know either so they’re going to try to get ahead of him. They don’t want to get behind him because they don’t want to walk him because of his speed, so one complements the others.”

The Nationals have no questions about how Turner will react to the spotlight of the postseason, because he has been unfazed by everything thrown at him this …

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