According to MLB.com’s Bill Ladson, Nationals president (and acting GM) Stan Kasten met with Ryan Zimmerman’s agent Brodie Van Wagenen today to discuss a contract extension. They’ll continue to talk with the goal of a deal before Opening Day.
Zimmerman will be paid $3.325MM for 2009, his first arbitration year. The 24 year-old third baseman is under team control through 2011.