Category Archives: Roster

Add it all up, Mike Rizzo showed that he has game!

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

As the first snow hit Washington, D.C., general manager Mike Rizzo was back at work as he is trying to finalize his 2020 roster. A week ago he was being criticized for a lackluster offseason even though he had six … Continue reading →

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Daniel Hudson is back with the #Nats because he wanted to return! Rizzo adds the lefty thump with Eric Thames!

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Some thought that the signing of Will Harris meant that Daniel Hudson would not return. Some were convinced that the pursuit of Josh Donaldson was a financial restraint that would not allow any more acquisitions, but general manager Mike Rizzo … Continue reading →

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What would the #Nats look like if Mike Rizzo was done?

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

First off, we do not believe that Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo has completed his lineup for 2020. But we can take a glance at the World Series Game #7 lineup for a glimpse into what the middle of … Continue reading →

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The Nats offseason is like a great crime novel! Starlin Castro emerges! UPDATE: Asdrubal is back!

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The Washington Nationals offseason is as good as a great crime novel. The young CEO and two of his managers were killed while the star salesman was near death and survived while the longest tenured employee contemplates retirement. You can … Continue reading →

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The math says the Mets, Nats, Braves, Phillies, Marlins are the current pole positions in the NL East

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

All of the NL East teams have made key moves in this offseason, and the Mets currently have the highest team WAR in the NL East at 43.9 according to Fangraphs. The Nats are at a 41.0 WAR followed by … Continue reading →

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Days of Rest – Why Only for Pitchers? Could the Howie system work for Zim?

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Baseball analytics cover most anything you want to analyze including days-of-rest statistics if you can crunch the numbers yourself for position players. If you go to the Baseball-Reference and look at the splits for pitchers, you see their numbers broken … Continue reading →

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Remember that time when Rizzo snagged his Plan C on Xmas eve of 2015?

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The 2015 season was a disaster for the Washington Nationals which started with much promise when the Lerners ponied up $210 million to bag the prize of free agency that year in Max Scherzer. In Spring Training, the infamous line … Continue reading →

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Sometimes Plan B works out better in the long run!

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Revisiting some thoughts from last year when the Nationals pivoted to their Plan B, it turned out to be the moves that pushed the Nats over the top. The Patrick Corbin acquisition not only provided the starting pitching depth the … Continue reading →

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Rizzo is holding firm for now on Donaldson and all other infield moves

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The Washington Nationals are the World Series champs, and that should give General Manager Mike Rizzo a little bit of extra time on assembling his 2020 roster. He indicated that he would move swiftly after the Winter Meetings, but now … Continue reading →

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Rizzo Should Make a Trade for…

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Luke Erickson

The defending World Series Champions were an integral part of two of the three biggest stories to emerge from the 2019 Winter Meetings in San Diego (if you thought the third one was Gerrit Cole, you thought wrong ;-).

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