My feelings regarding the signing of 33 year old reliever Rafael Soriano portrayed in temperature: luke warm. Closer to hot than cold, though.. Soriano can gobble up a ton of innings from the bullpen if needed. How the Nationals make him worth $28 million (and a forfeited 1st round pick) over 2 years with the [...]
The Nationals recently announced they are projecting that Stephen Strasburg’s last start will be September 12th. Last night, the Nationals had 19 hits, including a DC record 6 home runs. Jayson Werth had 4 hits in the leadoff spot and has at least 1 hit since he’s come off the DL in every game except [...]
Bernadina’s ridiculous game-saving catch last night in the bottom of the 12th inning to end the game (which was #1 on SportsCenter’s top 10 plays) made me start thinking about how clutch this guy is. I’ve always been a huge fan of ‘the Shark’, and it seems like he always quietly finds a way to make [...]
In addition to the Nationals being ranked in 1st place in every pitching statistical category of note, they are climbing there way up the ranks in batting. I’ve advocated for a while now that our pitching maintaining its’ dominance is a lot more likely than our hitting maintaining its’ woefulness. Hitting can be streaky and [...]
Excluding the woeful Phillies who are 1-9 in their last 10, all NL East teams head in to the break winning 6 of their last 10. The Nationals sit atop the division by 4 games over the Braves, and have the best record in the National League. According to ESPN.com’s standings, this puts them at [...]
Ryan Zimmerman has not been having the sort of year you would expect from Ryan Zimmerman. He’s been battling inflammation in his shoulder and does not have the offensive numbers you need from a guy you just signed to a $100 million deal. Through June 23rd, Zimmerman was batting a miserable .218. He’s a guy [...]
The top 2 concerns for the Nationals currently are centerfield on defense and the leadoff spot on offense. One positive about these 2 needs is, often, they are not mutually exclusive. A short-term option is to trade. Michael Bourn of the Atlanta Braves, a leadoff centerfielder currently batting .304, is a possible trade prospect. The [...]
LaRoche is having a strong bounce back year after only playing 43 games last year due to injury. While his batting average has dropped significantly since earlier in the year, he still has 15 homeruns and 47 RBIs. That ranks him 1st and 2nd, respectively, among 1st basemen. LaRoche’s defense is another strong asset adding [...]
Everyone, as they should, has loved Lombardozzi and the way he’s been playing in his first full year in the Bigs. His approach at the plate, also, seems like that of a typical leadoff hitter. He is somewhat of a slap hitter and does not strikeout very much at all. In fact, he strikesout the least on the [...]
Yesterday the inevitable, when Davey Johnson announced that Ross Detwiler would now be the 5th starter in the Nationals’ rotation. Anybody that pays any attention to this team at all probably could have told you this would be a great move before Wang’s last start where he was yanked in the 4th after giving up 5 [...]