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Extending young stars is not something the Nationals organization has done very successfully in its history, with countless homegrown stars such as Bryce Harper, Juan Soto, Anthony Rendon, and Trea Turner eventually leaving via free agency or being traded before their contracts with the club could run out. There has been some success stories, such […]
From Federal Baseball | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
There will be a rundown of everyone at the end of the year so no particular reason to go over Nunez's power surge or Wood's power drop (before today) right now. Instead let's meet some newer guys since there are a lot of new faces around Jorge Alfaro - in the "we gotta try something behind the plate" world that the Nats are in - here is Alfaro. If the name sounds familiar we was a big-time prospect about a decade ago for the Phillies, a key piece to the Rangers trade f...
From Nationals Baseball | 2 months ago | 1 read
Daylen Lile is hot right now. He's been up almost half a year and is closing in on 300 PA. in that he's hit a solid .282 / .327 / .450 line and it's only been better in the second half .318 / .360 / .523. How excited should you be from a guy that probably entered 2024 the 6th Nationals outfielder to watch on some lists* He's a legit prospect (2nd round pick) and while is isn't super young he's right in there with Wood and House which is frankly young enough for anyone that isn't a ...
From Nationals Baseball | 3 months ago | 1 read
The Nats brought up Dylan Crews today, back from injury and ready to get some more at bats. To clear a roster spot they didn't cut 32 year old signed for a single year Josh Bell, who is hitting average from the DH spot. They didn't cut 31year old, well he can field if he can literally do NOTHING else, signed for a single year Paul DeJong. They didn't cut 29 year old, never was catcher Riley Adams who doesn't do anything well. Instead they cut 29 year old Nathaniel Lowe, who b...
From Nationals Baseball | 4 months ago | 1 read
I did go on vacation again, yes. I also will again the second week in August. The Nats have begun their sell-off and it's mostly gone exactly as you could hope Chafin and Garcia and Soroka out. Chafin was found money, a DFA'd player who turned it around for the Nats and ended up part of a deal. Soroka didn't pan out exactly as planned but the fact he was sent out for anything means his signing was a win. Luis Garcia is at least a decent arm with ...
From Nationals Baseball | 4 months ago | 1 read
The Nats season is over in the "compete for anything worthwhile" but it's far from over in the "kids development sense" we know about the kids that are here and doing well. What's coming down the pike? More time for kids here Brady House - looks like a talented kid up for the first time. Strong swing, solid form but he's getting fooled a lot. Works out to about an average bat in his limited time. A little iffy in the field so far. If he can just slightly i...
From Nationals Baseball | 5 months ago | 2 reads
Everything? Ha ha. No! Didn't you read the last post? There are some good and in the comments I mention the sort of neither good or bad (Garcia, Irvin, Parker, all the kids just getting their feet wet) But there are some bad things. You can't be 20 games under at the All-Star break on luck alone. Plan Ruiners Keibert Ruiz had a hot start making optimistic Nats fans say "forget about the last few years! Maybe he was hurt!" Nope. He stinks! Always bad behind the pl...
From Nationals Baseball | 5 months ago | 2 reads
The Nats did not get better after the firings. The 1-5 run isn't anything off than expected, facing two good teams away from home 2-4 is the baseline with 1-5 and 3-3 happening almost as easy. This is not a good team, and it's still being run by Davey's guys so don't expect any miracles. The big thing that happened was the draft. I don't usually care much about the draft, but in the past the Nats having the #1 pick with generational talents has made me take a closer look at it. That was ...
From Nationals Baseball | 5 months ago | 1 read
You all know how I feel. Davey deserved to get fired as much as any manager who won a WS has, at least on performance. His teams regularly underperformed expectations, including this year, and they regularly failed at the fundamentals, or at least it felt like it. I won't rehash it anymore. You can go back and read what I said a few posts ago. I think it's best for the Nats he's gone. Rizzo is more complicated. As others have pointed out, Rizzo has a skill s...
From Nationals Baseball | 5 months ago | 1 read
The Red Sox beat the Nationals 10-3 on Saturday afternoon, evening their record at 45-45. It was the franchise's 10,000th regular season victory. Boston is the second American League team and the tenth major league team to reach 10,000 wins. The franchise has 108 postseason wins. Here are the franchises with more than 5,000 wins, as of a few days ago. Also: The second-longest World Series championship drought is 56 years, held by the Brewers and Padres . . . . Weird.
From the joy of sox | 5 months ago | 1 read
And Fire Rizzo. And Sell the Team Look I've been an advocate for Rizzo, who can deal with the best of them, and is perfectly acceptable at IDing long range contract targets (some bomb, some work out - that's just how it goes). But sticking by Davey here isn't about results or Davey's proven track record with kids (which doesn't exist), it's about keeping a guy who doesn't complain about the roster at all and works quietly with whatever he's given. Rizzo bombed in...
From Nationals Baseball | 6 months ago | 1 read
Are we talking about this blog or the Nats? Hey yo! After the nice run that ended with a sweep of Arizona the Nats have played, as we've gone over before, like you'd expect a 75 win team to play. Competitive enough that you would be surprised at them being swept in two straight series. Not good enough that you'd really expect them to win two straight series against better teams. And there are a fair number of better teams. The dregs of the NL remain the dregs, the...
From Nationals Baseball | 6 months ago | 1 read
I'm thankful for a lot but I'm very thankful today that the Nats team is winning in strong fashion and not sneaking out close wins because if there's one thing that I hate (and as you can probably tell there are many) it's the trite re-use of the "Cardiac" nickname for any team of young players (Cardiac Kids!) or whose name slightly allows it because of a similar sound (CardiAc NAts!). That isn't happening here. I can breathe. I'm also thankful for a great weekend of Nats bas...
From Nationals Baseball | 6 months ago | 1 read
Jim Rassol-USA TODAY Sports Pretty good deal for a 23-year-old. All-Star outfielder Juan Soto and the Nationals have avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $17.1 million deal. MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand was among the reporters to tweet out the news on Tuesday evening. Juan Soto and the Nationals have agreed to a $17.1 million contract to avoid arbitration, per source. — Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) March 22, 2022 Soto, who was a “super two” player and is in his second seas...
From MLB Daily Dish | over 3 years ago | 1 read
Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Trea Turner just got a healthy raise. One of the primary reasons that the Nationals decided to part ways with Trea Turner and trade him to the Dodgers was that is was clear he was going to be making big time money both in the short and long-term. With the Nationals not set to contend in the near-term, having a luxury like Trea around (especially with his free agency looming) didn’t make the most sense. However, what that meant is that for 2022, the Dodge...
From MLB Daily Dish | over 3 years ago | 1 read
Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images How quickly can this be turned around? I am now working on the New York Mets Top 20 prospects for 2019 list. The next team in line is the Baltimore Orioles to be followed by the Philadelphia Phillies , the Cleveland Indians , the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Houston Astros , the Chicago Cubs , the Toronto Blue Jays , and the Washington Nationals. Use this thread to discuss the Baltimore Orioles organization. Possible points for discussion include, but ...
From Minor League Ball | about 7 years ago | 2 reads