by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
Photo by Nats social media of the 4 Nats players named to the All-Star team
Tonight is the mid-summer classic, and while the Washington Nationals are represented by four All-Stars, only Max Scherzer will be in the starting lineup as the National League’s starting pitcher. At some point, Trea Turner and Juan Soto will come off the bench to sub into the game. Kyle Schwarber is on the 10-day IL and will not play in the game. Continue reading
The All-Star Home Run Derby is set for Coors Field in Colorado. MLB officials are not hiding the fact that the derby baseballs will not be placed in a humidor. Many expect we will see home runs soar 500+ feet. If you love home runs, this is the event for you. Continue reading
In Nats history, the only impact player from the 2nd round; Photographer Cathy Taylor
The stars of any draft mostly come from the first round picks. You usually get about a 40 percent from every year that have good MLB careers and only a handful become All-Stars.
The 2014 draft brought a trio of Washington Nationals together, each picked by a different team. The fourth overall pick was Kyle Schwarber by the Cubs, thirteenth overall was Trea Turner by the Padres, and eighteenth overall was Erick Fedde by the Nationals. That particular draft has only seen one high school kid emerge and that was Jack Flaherty of the Cardinals at thirty-four in the first round. That year the first-rounders were evenly split 20-20 between college and high school players. The failure rate for high school kids is much higher. Continue reading
Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats
Losing games and losing Kyle Schwarber happened as the team was 40-39 during that July 2nd game, The Washington Nationals were very much in the pennant race at that time. Since then, their chances are fading. The team was 0-4 in that same stretch without Trea Turner, and now the team will be without catcher Yan Gomes and Schwarber for the foreseeable future, and of course Stephen Strasburg has been gone most of the season and Joe Ross just joined him on the IL. The imperfect storm has also shown the presumed strength of the team, the starting pitching, as a struggling part of the equation recently. Continue reading
Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats
The hits just keep coming as Yan Gomes was place on the 10-day IL just a few minutes ago. One of the top performers on the team, Gomes joins a long list of players on the IL including their other catcher, Alex Avila. The team just got back Kyle Finnegan and Daniel Hudson from the 10-day IL.
Snubs happen all the time with All-Star rosters, and MLB just righted things by adding Max Scherzer to the All-Star team. It will be his 8th consecutive game (no game in 2020). He joins Trea Turner, Kyle Schwarber, and Juan Soto in a quartet of Washington Nationals who will be well-represented in Colorado for the 2021 All-Star game. Continue reading
Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats
This is the game to see how the Washington Nationals bounceback from one of those defeats that defies all logic. The Nats find themselves in San Francisco to take on another hot team in the west, the upstart San Francisco Giants, a team the Nats split a 4-game series with last month in Nats Park. Continue reading
Photo by Marlene Koenig for TalkNats
Sometimes you just can’t explain baseball results. That is lesson #1 when you try to rationalize a fluke. Sure, Max Scherzer melted down in the 4th inning in epic proportions. It happens.
A relief pitcher with one career at-bat finds himself in a bases loaded spot, against a 3-time Cy Young, and the reliever barrels up a blazing fastball below his knees. This cat, now folk hero, named Daniel Camarena had one career at-bat and it was a K. He was in a 2-strike count against Scherzer who dotted a 96.5 mph fastball below his knees and well under the zone. Camarena went 3-iron and got full barrel on the ball and sent it out at 107.2 mph, as if he has done this many times before. He hadn’t. He didn’t even take BP — why should he. In his 28 career at-bats in the minors over 8 seasons, Camarena has 5 hits — all singles. Slam Diego. Continue reading
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