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Who the heck is that guy? #Nats 2024 spring training field guide, hitting edition

Posted on February 18, 2024 by SaoMagnifico

Grapefruit League play gets underway on February 24 for the Washington Nationals. But most of their position players have already reported to camp. The Nats have their work cut out for them in 2024. The front office chose not to … Continue reading →

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Who the heck is that guy? #Nats 2024 spring training field guide, pitching edition

Posted on February 17, 2024 by SaoMagnifico

Spring training is once again upon us. Pitchers and catchers have reported, along with most of the rest of the Washington Nationals. It has not been an impressive offseason for General Manager Mike Rizzo & Co. Many of Rizzo’s stated … Continue reading →

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Grading the 2023 Washington Nationals: pitching edition

Posted on October 13, 2023 by SaoMagnifico

The season is over, and the report card is due for the players who appeared in 2023 for the Washington Nationals. Grades here are presented relative to what I’ll call “reasonable expectations”. For instance, no one expected Amos Willingham to … Continue reading →

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Grading the 2023 Washington Nationals: position player edition

Posted on October 12, 2023 by SaoMagnifico

The Washington Nationals finished 71-91 in the 2023 season. That’s still a fifth-place finish in the National League East, but it’s a big improvement from 2022. Who to credit for the improvement? Many observers thought the Nats would fall well … Continue reading →

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Optimism and Natitude align after the Draft!

Posted on July 10, 2023 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

People can choose their outlook on life — but if you are not more optimistic today as a Washington Nationals fan than you were on August 2, 2022, I don’t know what to tell you. The Nats pulled off the … Continue reading →

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Déjà vu all over again — 1,324 days apart, and on the same 90 feet of dirt and grass!

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

You could not even script tonight’s game to be like Game 6 of the 2019 World Series with the interference play on Trea Turner, but yet it happened tonight — and the Washington Nationals end up on the wrong side … Continue reading →

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LSU head coach: Paul Skenes is the “closest comparison since Stephen Strasburg”

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Ben Belford-Peltzman

The Washington Nationals franchise was in a dark and ominous place a year ago as Juan Soto was turning down record-breaking offers from the Nats — a team that was rumored to be sold imminently at the time. Also, the … Continue reading →

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Potential Impact of the MLB Competitive Balance Tax on the Nats Payroll

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Power Boater

Having crossed the MLB Competitive Balance Tax threshold for the first time possibly in 2017, the luxury tax will start to have a major impact on the Nats’ payroll decisions in the upcoming years, that is a fact. What that … Continue reading →

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Winter’s Dream For A Baseball Fan

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Ray Wyvill

In our minds is an image that has been nurtured by the cold, dark evenings of an interminable winter.  Our young men bound out of the dugout wearing bridal veil white uniforms into the blinding sunshine set against impossibly green … Continue reading →

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Pace of Play

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Erika C.

Pace of play. This is a term that I feel has been shoved down my throat since Rob Manfred took over as commissioner of MLB in January of 2015. He has talked at length about the need to speed up … Continue reading →

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