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The Washington Nationals got blown-out last night, and come to the stadium today on a clean slate. The Nats have Cade Cavalli starting with the hopes that he can continue what Jake Irvin and Foster Griffin did over the weekend.
Yesterday was another day for the Nationals where an error/mistake changed an entire game. One thing for sure that plagues this team, besides leading the league in errors, is that the team has often allowed adversity to ruin the remainder of the game. Errors and mistakes happen. How you deal with them has to change.
With the Mets starting a lefty tonight, the Nats have added in some more right-handed bats in another of the new-look lineups.
With Brad Lord and Andre Granillo picking up the bullpen inning, the rest of the bullpen is very rested with the day-off on Monday. With Miles Mikolas pitching tomorrow, the Nats most likely want to save Mitchell Parker for tomorrow, and most likely don’t want PJ Poulin going more than one inning. That still gives four fresh arms with Richard Lovelady, Cionel Perez, Paxton Schultz, and Gus Varland. Here is a chart of usage on manager Blake Butera‘s bullpen:
The FanGraphs WAR chart is accumulating data. This will start to give us a clearer picture in a few more weeks when the sample sizes get larger. The OAA defense stat is now giving us a picture of what the Nats have — and don’t have. We will start adding more statistics as the sample sizes get larger.
Washington Nationals vs. New York Mets
Stadium: CitiField, Queens, New York
1st Pitch: 7:10 PM EDT
TV: Nationals.TV
Radio: 106.7 The Fan radio and via the MLB app. On Sirius/XM, tune to Channel 175 for the home broadcast and the road team is online only.
